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Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... business and product development activities for the firm. Falzon's role will involve expanding Portfolio Partners' institutional and retail arms of the local business. Her brief entails overseeing distribution and product innovation opportunities within ...

Concise targets midcaps

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... trying to do as well is to provide a managed solution to a number of groups and we've been trying to attract both institutional and wholesale clients as well," he said. Despite the early stages of the fund's operations, Parr confirmed that a number of ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... investor in the Prisma Global Multi-Strategy Fund and is also the Responsible Entity for the fund, which is open to institutional investors only in Australia. Set up in 2004, Prisma Capital Partnersas is a joint venture between a group of former Goldman ...

Lazard appoints Asia MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... funds management and prior to this appointment worked at Lehman Brothers Investment Management as head of North Asia Institutional Business. In this role, Choon will introduce Lazard Asset Management's global and regional strategies to Asian based professional ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... the associated risks lower because of the government backed MBS agency. "Investment hungry super funds and other institutional investors are expected to benefit from an enhanced model that would deliver a new source of government guaranteed fixed income ...

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 ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... expected to see more emphasis upon liability driven investment strategies (LDI). A recent State Street survey of institutional investors has found that North American pension plan executives and sponsors put liability mismatch as their number one risk ...

Investments for planners, by planners: Instreet

... what's available? The result is Instreet, a new boutique asset manager set up in January this year that develops "institutional" style products for the retail market. It was formed after Lucas and his team left Mariner. The venture is backed by Premium ...

Man fund boosts alpha through bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... launch a defensive portable alpha product that aims to milk returns independent of market fluctuations. Open to institutional investors, the Man RMF Bond Index Plus is designed to outperform the UBS Composite Bond Index by 200 to 400 basis points per ...

NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... equity co-heads, Darren Thompson and Simon Rutherford, Northward Capital manages roughly $1.4 billion on behalf of institutional investors.