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Down markets make good investments cheaper: Perennial

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
In down markets retail investors need to remember dollar-cost averaging and work with advisers and managers who can find them opportunities. Brian Thomas, head of retail funds management at Perennial Investment Partners, said, "Whilst we hear lots of ...

CFS GAM expands BDM

Colonial First State Global Asset Management has promoted long time exec Eddy Schipper to head of institutional business development and recruited two more to the BDM team. Schipper, who joined CFS GAM in 2001, will develop and manage asset consultant ...

NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
National Australia Bank Group's boutique fund manager Northward Capital, has launched the division's first retail fund, Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust. The fund adopts a neutral investment strategy so that it can outperform in different market ...

NZ Super ends Fisher Funds ties

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation has officially ended their investment relationship with Fisher Funds Management Limited opting to take this aspect of the portfolio direct. NZ Super appointed Fisher Funds back in December 2003 to manage an ...

GVI shifts retail weight to insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Homegrown fund manager Global Value Investors (GVI) flags plans to offer its flagship retail fund to institutional clients. Established in February 2005, the GVI is seeking to launch its flagship Global Industrial Share Fund to institutional clients. ...

Aviva breaks industry fund hurdle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... management group Aviva has stolen the march on rival industry funds by combining industry fund-style simplicity with retail fund-style service in its Navigator Business Super. It's like Aviva has capitulated to, and yet conquered, competition when it ...

Ventura breaks benchmark shackles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Ventura Investment Management has added a Global Opportunities and High Growth 100 fund to its investment menu, both of which are benchmark agnostic. Both funds mirror the Russell funds by the same name. However, investors can access these funds via ...

Member protection costs will hurt: AUSfund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
Super fund managers should consider placing inactive members into eligible rollover funds to reduce member protection costs, according to AUSfund. Warren Fawcett, manager of the Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) at AUSfund, said member protection costs would ...

Industry funds biggest losers from switching

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Industry super funds reaped the least switching gains at the end of last year, as they reported for the first time a negative net share of superannuation switching behaviour, a new survey by Roy Morgan shows. During the six months leading up to September ...

SMSFs lead charge

... said. Analysts and research groups including Investment Trends have long predicted that SMSFs could soon supplant the retail fund segment as the default choice of many Australians. The consequence of this is that financial services providers will be ...