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AMP Capital hires ex-ING IM port managers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
AMP Capital has merged its sustainable and capital equity teams to form a new Australian Fundamental Equities team that includes three new appointments from ING Investment Management. Gian Pandit and Michael Price will join the new team as senior portfolio ...

Indexed FUM up 30% since GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
The push to alpha-beta separation has put new impetus into the indexing sector, leading to continued growth in index market penetration particularly among equities, according to new research by Rainmaker. Indexing in Australia is now $223 billion, its ...

ING IM equities head departs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
ING Investment Management's chief investment officer of asset strategies and alternatives, James Wright, has left the company following its takeover by UBS. A Morningstar analyst confirmed that Wright has left ING IM and will not move across to UBS ...

UBS shuts ING Australian alpha funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
ING Investment Management has terminated two of its Australian share funds, following its takeover by UBS Global Asset Management. The ING Alpha Plus Australian Share Fund and the ING Extended Alpha Australian Share Fund both closed on October 6. ING ...

Alphington targets younger HNW investors with wealth service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Alphington Private Investor Services has changed its business model and licensing arrangements to provide broad wealth management services to the retail space and typically younger clients. The Melbourne based firm will continue to target higher end ...

Qantas Super makes delayed fund departure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
Qantas Super has sold its 50% stake in value manager Constellation Capital, three years after deciding it wanted to exit the business. In September 2008, Qantas announced plans to sell its private equity stake and withdraw $250 million of investments ...

nabInvest buys equities start-up stake

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
nabInvest has continued its acquisitive streak by turning its attention to a Sydney based start-up, acquiring a non-controlling stake in quantitative based equities specialist Redpoint Investment Management. National Australia Bank's direct asset management ...

Manager tenure impacts success: S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
In a study of long-only Australian equity funds, Standard & Poor's found the duration a portfolio manager remains with a fund manager is influential on the success of the fund itself, with consistent returns being a main benefit. In its report 'Portfolio ...

Insto investors stand by equity risk models

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
Global institutional investors believe that employing a variety of equity risk models is a key component of portfolio construction, retaining faith in them to help during a financial crisis, according to an MSCI survey. More than 600 portfolio managers ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Separately managed account growth is driving interest in the concentrated Australian equity fund sector, research house Lonsec has said. Lin Ngin, senior investment analyst for Lonsec, said there had been an increase in concentrated strategies, with ...