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CFS GAM hires AMP Capital ESG researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... GAM. In a separate announcement, AMP Capital appointed a portfolio manager and portfolio analyst within the Sustainable Alpha Australian Equities team. Standard & Poor's placing one of its fund's 'on hold' following Edgerton's departure.

AMP Cap add resources as fund placed 'on hold'

PRESS RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a portfolio manager and portfolio analyst within the Sustainable Alpha Australian Equities team as a ratings firm placed one of its fund's 'on hold' following the departure of a key researcher. The firm hired Carlos ...

Fairview joins Alpha managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Boutique firm Alpha Fund Managers has added the Fairview Equity Partners Emerging Companies strategy to its Alpha series multi-manager line-up. "The Fairview Equity Partners Emerging Companies strategy provides investors with an actively managed and ...

Aus equities FMs target solid result stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... index traded between 4,500 and just over 4,900 since August, suggesting fund managers would have found it harder to get alpha in a sideways moving market. Albert Hung, chief investment officer at Alleron Investment Management, said that to meet their ...

Perpetual tops S&P review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... industrials-sector strategy reflects S&P's increased conviction in the Alliance team's ability to add consistent risk-adjusted alpha." Sector funds deliberately invest in companies that share a number of key characteristics. For instance, Aberdeen's ...

Solaris adds to team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... member to its dealing team after promoting two senior executives. Michael Bell, currently the fund's head of dealing and High Alpha Product Specialist, will take on an analyst/portfolio manager role starting next month, 27 April. Bell has been with the ...

Just cash, thanks

TYNDALL RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... designed for institutional investors caught out by cash strategies that weren't true to label. Enhanced cash. Cash plus. Cash alpha. You name it, some of these funds with the label 'cash' weren't what they seemed - but investors discovered that only ...

SuperAlphaFund closes shop in Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... being unable to reach a compromise with the regulator on the public disclosure document for its Australian product, Super Alpha Fund 1. "ASIC seems to be under extreme pressure concerning their handling of alternative investment funds like ours. "Unfortunately ...

Integrity appoints new portfolio manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... Management. Michael joins Integrity after nearly nine years with AMP where he was a senior portfolio manager on the Sustainable Alpha team. Prior to that Michael spent several years working with Fiani at UBS Brinson (now UBS Global Asset Management). ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... end customers and will ultimately impact adoption." Absolute return, arbitrage strategies, derivative strategies, portable alpha, short selling and inverse strategies are just a few defined as alternative strategies in the report. Alternative energy ...