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Legg Mason acquires UK global equity manager

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... Royce & Associates and Western Asset Management. As part of this transaction, the $2.5 billion Legg Mason Australian Equities (LMAE) led by Reece Birtles and his 13-person team, will become part of Martin Currie. LMAE is an active Australian equities ...

UniSuper buys big into Westfield despite restructure war

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... biggest buyer of [Scentre] since it listed." The company is currently listed as UniSuper's seventh biggest Australian equities holding. However, Pearce rejected criticisms that this was a backflip, saying the new company sits in a different risk bucket ...

Prime Value Opportunities Fund added to BT Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
Boutique Australian equities manager, Prime Value Asset Management, has had its concentrated Prime Value Opportunities Fund accepted onto the BT Wrap platform. The Prime Value Opportunities Fund invests in a concentrated portfolio of equities. During ...

FSI questions viability of franking credits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... it said the practice could become an increasing drain on the government coffers. "A growing proportion of Australian equities has been, and is expected to be, held in superannuation accounts in retirement. The Inquiry notes that, due to refundable imputation ...

Challenger adds Australian equity boutique

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... umbrella. Founded in June, AretA(C) Investment Partners is an active, quality focused investor, specialising in Australian equities. The group was founded last month by former Wilson HTM head of research and director Jacqueline Fernley and Northcape ...

Star managers launch fund-of-funds in support of children's charities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Aboud and Bennelong Australian Equity Partners' Mark East to provide investors with diversified exposure to Australian equities. Other fund managers involved in the initiative are Coopers Investments, Eley Griffiths Group, Discovery Asset Management ...

Capacity issues drive super funds in-house

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... of small caps. "One of the areas where there is a lot of increased activity in terms of internalisation is Australian equities. And because of the pronounced underperformance there is some interest on the small caps space, on maintaining allocations ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... a recent period of poorer performance, emerging market equities have still outperformed international and Australian equities over a 10-year period. Emerging markets (unhedged) have returned 9.3% per annum over the period compared to 8.9% from International ...

BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Investment Partners' existing local investment solutions offering, which includes Arnhem Investment Management (Australian equities), Antin Infrastructure Partners (European infrastructure), Carnegie Asset Management (global growth equity), FFTW (fixed ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... and VicSuper in 2009, the association has grown. To date, more than 50 institutions managing $100 billion in Australian equities, have signed in as members to show their support. And while the spotlight this week was on Citi - deservedly so - there was ...