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AMP multi asset fund wins first insto mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
AMP Capital's multi asset fund has landed its first ever institutional mandate to the value of $55 million from South Pacific-based Tuvalu Trust Fund. Launched last year, the fund targets retail and institutional investors and offers more certain investment ...

UK manager enters local market

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
London-based investment house, Advance Emerging Capital, has partnered with Melbourne's AFM Investment Partners to enter the Australian institutional market. Advance Emerging Capital focuses on emerging and frontier markets and will work with AFM to ...

Alphinity backs growth in energy sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
Alphinity Investment Management expects Australia will experience 4% steel growth in 2012 but picks the energy sector as where the real growth can be found. "We are coming to the close of the super growth cycle for steel although there is a short term ...

MLC adds strategies, lowers share exposure

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
MLC has continued its spree of asset allocation changes with news of two new strategies for four of its MLC Horizon Series, including allocations to three managers and limiting its exposure to global shares. MLC has made an allocation to a multi-asset ...

Aubrey lands Skandia mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Treasury Group backed global equities boutique, Aubrey Capital Management, has secured a $30 million mandate from Skandia Investment Group. The mandate was awarded after a competitive tender and takes Aubrey Capital's total funds under management to ...

Fixed income fund released

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Challenger Limited's new fixed rate, fixed income fund has officially been launched in a platform-based format to appeal to requests from financial advisers. Initially reported in late March, the newly-launched fund will manage the cashflow needs and ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... share market. It is beyond time that Australian families were given the chance to invest like the top end of town," said Mark Bouris, YBR executive chairman. "RBA analysis shows that the major banks earn about 2.4% per annum more than they pay retail ...

CommInsure names advice distrib head

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
CommInsure has named former OnePath head Kevin Goss as its head of adviser distribution. Effective from June 11 2012, Goss will be responsible for CommInsure's national retail insurance sales. Goss was previously head of insurance sales at ANZ-owned ...

Investor negativity despite positive signs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Investor sentiment climbed a significant 5.6 points in the latest index report, taking it to -16.8 and the eighth consecutive negative quarter. Based on the fourth quarter of 2011, a survey of 1,004 respondents between February 21 and March 5 this year ...

Treasury Group adds director

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Former ANZ heavyweight and founder of the Centre for Investor Education, Melda Donnelly, has joined multi-boutique asset management business Treasury Group as an independent non-executive director. Effective since March 28, Donnelly was welcomed to ...