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Perpetual halves investment in embattled Star

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... casino. Perpetual is not the only investment house to fall victim to being invested in Star. In September WAM portfolio managers Matthew Haupt and John Ayoub admitted they "got the call wrong" when they took a 4% stake in Star in June last year. In September ...

RQI Investors promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... three senior staffers. Joanna Nash and Ron Guido have expanded their responsibilities as senior quantitative portfolio managers with promotions to head of portfolio management and head of alpha research, respectively. In the new role, Nash oversees the ...

Magellan makes internal PM moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
Magellan Asset Management has moved around the portfolio managers for three of its funds. The Magellan High Conviction Trust, the Magellan Global Equities Fund and the Magellan Global Fund will be affected by the changes, effective today. Alan Pullen ...

Aussie female fund manager representation lags: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... from a total of 18,141 fund managers. Taiwan, with 339 fund managers, again leads the pack with 32% of its portfolio managers being female, up from 29% the prior year. Singapore saw the highest jump in the proportion of female portfolio managers, rising ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Portfolio managers for the Wilson Asset Management (WAM) Leaders Fund, Matthew Haupt and John Ayoub, admitted they "got the call wrong" when they took a 4% stake in embattled Star Casino just last year. Now WAM is pushing for the casino operator to ...

ART appoints chief financial officer, promotes managers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
... named interim chief executive for the insurance business. Meantime, ART has also promoted three of its senior portfolio managers to newly created leadership roles below investment strategy chief Andrew Fisher. Fisher's role includes responsibility ...

AllianceBernstein appoints chief AI officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... use of language was to understand, could indicate poor future performance of a company. He said analysts and portfolio managers were using those signals for idea generation and to time buys and sells. In addition to front-office investors, Chin said ...

Bennelong takes on fledgling boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
Two former Magellan portfolio managers have set up a new boutique and joined forces with Bennelong Funds Management to launch a global small and mid-cap strategy. Canopy Investors was established in February 2023 by Kris Webster and Michael Poulsen ...

ClearBridge launches first local global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
... initial investment amount of $20,000. New York-based ClearBridge head of global growth Elisa Mazen is one of the portfolio managers overseeing the strategy. She works alongside managing director and portfolio manager Michael Testorf and portfolio manager ...

Proxy advisors have 'undue influence': Jamie Dimon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... default large portions of their decision-making to proxy advisors. This, in turn, makes it harder for actual portfolio managers to override this decision making. "Some have argued that it's too hard and too expensive to review the large number of proxies ...