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BT small caps rated three stars by Morningstar

... maintain considerable stock picking skills. Following the Westpac integration in late 2002, BTFG's Sydney-based Australian equities team managed around $9.1 billion in funds under management by end March this year. This included $800 million in small ...

Analysis: Super funds and master trusts bullish on equities

Superannuation funds and master trusts are almost unanimously confident that Australian equities will rise over the next six-to-12 months, according to the latest survey by the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit. Ninety-five per cent of those surveyed ...

Morningstar downgrades AMP international equities on staff fears

Morningstar has downgraded embattled AMP's forward-looking rating for its management of international equities from 'positive' to 'neutral' in the wake of the company's geographic-based demerger. The rating house focused much of its attention on AMP's ...

Hedge funds trail broader indices in April: Hennessee

... index for the second month in a row with a return of 14.61%, Hennessee said. The second best performer was the Financial Equities Index, which returned 8.23%. "The broad market has been chasing beta, causing some difficulty for hedge fund managers, who ...

Retail investors lose the faith as equity funds shrink: Assirt

... in March, totalling $108.02 billion or 44.46% of the whole market. But Assirt added that the withdrawal of funds from equities could prove to be a case of bad timing. "Investors may well fund that they have exited from equities at the worst possible ...

Portfolio Partners small caps gets two stars from Morningstar

... Partners small capitalisation 'Growth at a Reasonable Price' (GARP) investment process two stars in its latest Australian equities sector strength rating. The rating house has given a rating of 'weak' and a 'neutral' outlook for Portfolio Partners' investment ...

Westpac announces $1.05 billion half-year profit

... experience has been in line with valuation assumptions, with the exception of low returns on Australian and international equities". Adding to this, the bank estimated a total value of identified synergies resulting from the BTFM purchase at $745 million. ...

Analysis: Australian international equities funds beat benchmark

The median Australian international equities manager has outperformed the benchmark over the one-quarter, one-year, two-year, and three-year periods, according to research conducted by the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit. The benchmark, as expressed ...

Morningstar gives three star rating to Challenger small caps

... three-star rating for Challenger International's small companies 'neutral style' investment process in its Australian equities sector strength rating, highlighting the fund's investment process and risk management as being 'weak'. It has however given ...

St George Bank announces $298 million half-year profit

... dependent on a number of factors, including retail deposits growth and the performance of financial markets, including equities. It should also be noted that further investment in key priority areas such as training and customer process design is und ...