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NGSS on mandate spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... to give us greater control over our portfolio, to gain greater transparency with the managers and to invest in high conviction boutique style managers," said Dwyer. According to Dwyer, the transition was performed by Citigroup. "The decision of the fund ...

Bellwether hires AFM for mandate search

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... qualitative investment process to invest in Australian shares. The firm's flagship Australian Shares Fund is a high conviction fund which invests in a maximum 30 large cap stocks. The fund has outperformed the S&P ASX 300 Accumulation Index by more than ...

Zenith ranks Martin Currie and Franklin Templeton

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... hold a portfolio of 30 to 45 stocks. Some of the factors in identifying quality stock involve the portfolio managers' conviction of the share and its potential return profile, the historic volatility of the stock, its correlation to the market and to ...

Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
High conviction fund managers look set to reap the rewards of a sluggish Aussie equities market, according to new research by van Eyk. Soaring fee levels have generally discouraged and disappointed investors in the high conviction space, compared to ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Active managers are paid to make big calls outside the benchmark and fund manager Nicholas Applegate did just that before the bottom fell out of Wall Street. Pedro Marcal, who is second in command to US-based chief investment officer and managing director ...

S&P reinstates ratings for 18 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... short term, due to both market factors and capital flows in and out of certain strategies, but over the medium term our conviction is that these multi-manager, multi-strategy funds can continue to meet their objectives," said S&P Fund Services analyst ...

Adam Smith hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... services industry. Adam Smith Asset Management was established in 2003 and is majority owned by its staff. It is a high conviction, active manager that seeks to invest in well managed companies with positive free cash flow and scalable business models ...

Tyndall finds value

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... star rating from Standard & Poor's. The ratings house awarded Tyndall its highest accolade reflecting its "very high conviction that the manager will consistently generate risk-adjusted returns in excess of both [Tyndall's] relevant investment objectives ...

Where to in global equities?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... BlackRock's Global Equity team is in Australia this week to talk to the local industry about the group's global "high conviction" fund. He said BlackRock's global equities portfolios have been significantly underweight in financials for more than two ...

AMP core property is a 5-star

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... operates under a strong risk-management framework," according to the report. "The fund's rating reflects our very high conviction in this fund's ability to deliver risk-adjusted returns relative to peers. [It] also reflects our confidence in AMP Capital ...