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S&P international review highlights higher risk appetite

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
... international large cap equity managers taking larger exposures to emerging markets and incorporating them into higher conviction portfolios. S&P's new international equities, large cap and long-short sector review assessed 44 managers with 56 products ...

No free lunch with high conviction funds: WestLB Mellon

... Sydney this week where the who's who of the financial services industry battled out the pros and cons of so-called high conviction funds. Fittingly held at swish Hemmes family-owned hotel The Establishment, QIC's chief executive Doug McTaggart moderated ...

IXIS Loomis wins Telstra Super $100m mandate

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... the index," said West. The fund, a partnership between Ixis and subsidiary group, Loomis Sayles, is a bottom up, high conviction concentrated portfolio of 40 to 50 global stocks. It is unhedged and aims to return 4 per cent above the MSCI World Index ...

True high conviction means big positions: Peters MacGregor

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
Define high conviction. To Peters MacGregor it means holding just eight stocks but backing your positions with more than 60 per cent of your total capital. Peters MacGregor chief executive officer, James Craigie, explained that to his team a high conviction ...

Morgan Stanley steps up local game

... equities managers. Aligned with the parent group's investment style, the Australian equities products will be 'high conviction' funds with a relatively concentrated pool of around 20 to 35 stocks. Kollins said that in hindsight Morgan Stanley should ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
... for a 170,000 increase - and the two previous months' increases in employment were revised down, further increases conviction for steady interest rates here in Australia. This is because the report points to a slowing in the US economy and this could ...

Select gold up 118 per cent in just 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
... company's Tabakoto gold mine in Mali. [Other] strong exploration results from the Bisha property have added to our conviction that this is high-grade gold," Select noted. With resource analysts around the country tipping that lots of life is left in ...

Suncorp scores $35m AMP mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
... research driven and built around a model where analysts must make the buy and sell calls themselves, fostering high conviction positions in trusted companies.

Advance appoints Tradewinds to manage international

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... cent of its International Shares Multi-blend Fund. Tradewinds is a value style global equities specialist with a high conviction portfolio it says is not correlated to the benchmark. Head of investment solutions at Advance, Steve Gameroy, said, "We believe ...

Key staff walk out on MLIM

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
... As senior portfolio managers, Pace and Ryland were critical members of the team, Pace managing the $1 billion High Conviction Fund and Ryland managing the $100 million Growth Share Fund. The three departures brings to eight the number of departures since ...