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AustralianSuper pours $200m into Northcape Capital

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Capital. This will bring AustralianSuper's weighting in small-caps to approximately 8.5 per cent of its Australian equities portfolio. Mark Delaney, deputy chief executive and chief investment officer at AustralianSuper, said the investment highlighted ...

Westscheme drops GMO and BlackRock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... after Howard Rosario, chief executive at Westscheme, said he was intensely scrutinising the fund's Australian equities portfolio mandates in July last year with BGI and BlackRock after the two firms merged.

IOOF gains $225m in net inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... two investment committees and appointed former Telstra Super investment executive, Dan Farmer, as Australian equities portfolio manager during the half year. The group's main focus in the past six months has been the transition of its IOOF Global One ...

Tyndall head moves to Industry Funds Management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Fund manager Tyndall Investment Management's managing director Brett Himbury has resigned to take on the top post at Industry Funds Management (IFM). Craig Hobart, the group's head of retail since 2007, has been appointed interim managing director of ...

Blue chips back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... reward [ratio] is in favour of the blue chip stocks," she argues. Howitt works with fellow Fidelity Australian equities portfolio manager, Paul Taylor. The funds and mandates she manages however are for international institutional investors. Howitt does ...

130/30 strategies slammed for high fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... should only be applied when returns exceed the targeted outperformance of the fund manager's core Australian equities portfolio, with perpetual high water marks applied." A perpetual high mark means fund managers do not receive performance fees before ...

GSJBWAM Aussie equities wins rating upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... impress ratings houses after gaining another rating upgrade from Lonsec. Lonsec upgraded the GSJBW Australian equities portfolio from 'investment grade' to 'recommended'. This is the second upgrade the Australian equities team has received from Lonsec. ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ipac has appointed $700 million mandates with GMO and Lazard as part of its Australian equities portfolio overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers ...

Tax and dividend boost at OptiMix

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... OptiMix has introduced a tax and dividend optimisation strategy (TDOS) overlay to its wholesale Australian Equities portfolio. "This tax and dividend optimisation strategy aims to fill an important gap that results when investment managers pursue alpha ...

AIST chair set sights on UN PRI board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... shares and led to the fund introducing a sustainable investment overlay into the fund's $2 billion Australian equities portfolio. Robertson was appointed to the AIST board in 2002 and elected chair in 2007. He was nominated to the UN PRI board by LGSS ...