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Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... boutique fund IFP Global Franchise earned the highest possible rating on its maiden run. Fernandes said the actively managed fund has a small team that had worked together for a number of years with a well-tested process. "They know how to implement ...

Lite Super website pulled down

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
It appears that yet another no frills, low-cost online retail super product has disappeared from the market after BankWest's Lite Super product and website has been pulled down. This follows recent news of the closing down of the IOOF-owned online super ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...

RaboPlus adds index funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
RaboPlus has added eight Vanguard Investments index funds to the firm's platform and is halving the brokerage across all the fund manager's products till the end of July. The firm's platform now includes the Vanguard Australian Shares Index fund; Australian ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... & Poor's, the BT fund doesn't take large intra and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said ...

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... Instreet launched a fund that provides exposure to the Schroders Alternative Solutions Commodity fund, an actively managed fund that provides equity exposure to 60 underlying commodities.

Instreet calls on expertise for funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... Solutions Commodity Fund, which has approximately $3.5 billion in funds under management. "This open ended actively managed fund considers a set of up 60 commodities, with a close focus on 40, that are analysed on a weekly basis," said George Lucas ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

The role of the active manager is not just to provide investors with above-benchmark returns but to keep raising those benchmarks, said Paul Fiani, head of Australian equities boutique fund Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one ...

BankWest branches into super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
BankWest has propelled itself onto the superannuation market with Lite Super, a low cost, indexed based super fund accessible online. Lite Super provides no entry or exit fees, a 1.25 per cent ongoing fee, four diversified indexed investment choices ...