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MFS snaps up ex-BT hedge funds guru

Less than a couple of months after his resignation, ex-BT head of alternatives Richard Keary has moved to MFS Alternatives as chief investment officer. Keary was the head of alternative investment solutions with BT Financial Group where he set up and ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
... Petroleum. Mining companies King Solomon Mines and Truscott Mining Corp list on the stock exchange, while investment group MFS launches its water fund. Yesterday, Australian stocks ended in negative territory despite positive trading earlier in the day ...

MFS goes on a shopping spree

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Listed investment group MFS has been on a buying spree of late, announcing it had entered into an agreement to purchase another New Zealand advisory firm, taking a 40 per cent stake in an Australian funds management business and launching an off-market ...

Russell adds two to international fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... other managers in the Russell International Shares fund are Bernstein Investment Research and Management (17.5 per cent), MFS Institutional Advisors (17.5 per cent), Institutional Capital Corporation (11.6 per cent), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc ...

T. Rowe Price wins Russell global equities mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... for a range of Russell funds globally and in Australia joins existing managers in the portfolio Arrowstreet (35 per cent), MFS (40 per cent) and Axiom (10 per cent). To make room for T. Rowe Price Axiom has had its mandate reduced from 25 per cent to ...

MFS buys 40 per cent of Vantage

MFS Alternative Asset has acquired a 40 per cent stake in private equity management group Vantage Asset Management (VAM), its maiden investment in the alternative asset sector. The group has also bought $2.3 million worth of shares in Vantage Private ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... share price index contract was down six points at 5,420. Today, John Fairfax Holdings holds its annual general meeting as does MFS Living and Leisure Group and Macmahon Holdings. And Axiom Mining Ltd lists on the Australian Stock Exchange. The Australian ...

MFS appoints fund manager for flagship

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
MFS Investment Management has appointed the former head of Macquarie Applied Portfolio Solutions as senior fund manager for its flagship Premium Income Fund. Grant Harris will take on the role having previously worked in investment research with both ...

First Capital appoints new MD

Financing group First Capital Group has appointed a former MFS manager to the role of managing director of its property financing business, First Capital Securities. Mark Phillips, former group manager of asset management and general manager of asset ...

Secured creditors called on for help in Westpoint bungle

... the financial planner-funded Westpoint Recovery Fund, Ian Bristow, has called on Westpoint's secured creditors such as ING, MFS, LM Investment and Perpetual, to help salvage investments poured into the company before it's too late. Three months on since ...