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Former UBS star team launches flagship Bennelong Avoca fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... as best we can." "We end up buying the ones trading at the biggest discount to our assessed values." The actively managed fund is expected to specialise in small cap stocks, which Campbell said would continue to be an outstanding source of alpha. The ...

Advisers turn from managed funds to ETFs: BetaShares

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... management fee cost $21,960 over the life of the investment but a 2 per cent management fee, indicative of an actively managed fund, cost $104,137. "An investor would be $82,000 better off if management fees were 0.39 per cent," Corbett said. "The underperformance ...

Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... charter is a major achievement for the boutique firm, launched by Challenger Financial Services last year. The actively managed fund, run by portfolio manager, principal and managing director Richard Quin, alongside colleagues Nik Persic and Mark Fabry ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Active Australian fixed interest funds performed well in 2010, according to Standard & Poor's Fund Services, which upgraded two managers and downgraded one. Aberdeen Australian Fixed Income and Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend were upgraded ...

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 ...