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China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
European markets may have come to a grinding halt due to sovereign debt fears in the region but the latest round of earnings in China show yet again the compelling diversification properties of Asian investments in a typical investor portfolio. Martha ...

Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
Aurora Funds Management has secured a $190 million mandate from ING Australia, thanks to the fund's investment strategy that enables investors to make money around earnings results announcements. The funds will be invested in a separately managed account ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
The global financial sector may be a shadow of its former self after the GFC but it is still a $9.1 trillion (US$8.5 trillion) market full of stocks ripe for the plucking, said fund manager Bennelong SGI Global Equities. Visiting Australia this month ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
New York Life Investments liked Epoch Investment Partners' free cash flow strategies so much they bypassed the norm of buying equity in the company or hiring them as a fund manager among many - opting instead to tie up a strategic partnership deal that ...

Platinum snubs US healthcare reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
US healthcare reforms have not had a material impact on Platinum Asset Management's International Health Care fund portfolio, as the fund continue to target pharmaceutical stocks that benefit from Asia's growth. Bianca Elzinger, fund manager at Platinum ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
The Australian fund manager behind one of T. Rowe Price's global equities strategy gives 'skin in the game' serious meaning when he poured all of his retirement savings into it. His parents are putting some money, too. Scott Berg, the Canberra-born ...

MSCI buys RiskMetrics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
MSCI has bought risk management and corporate governance researcher, RiskMetrics, in a cash and stock transaction worth more than A$1.7 billion, but a RiskMetrics spokesperson said it's business as usual in Australia. The index provider bought RiskMetrics ...

AXA Framlington eyes Japanese tech firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
AXA Framlington is allocating more than 10 per cent of its portfolio to Japanese companies to access firms selling robotics technology to China as the country's demand for sophisticated technology grows. The qualitative fund manager's Global Opportunities ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...

ASIC blocks Tankstream

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... offers for up to 50 per cent of the interests on issue in various Centro MCS property syndicates in November 2009. The Centro MSC syndicates are registered managed investment schemes, with total assets under management of approximately $1.5 billion as ...