Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 81 - 90 of 278 results for "van Eyk"

van Eyk awards small cap managers' highest rating

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
van Eyk Research has awarded three funds its top 'AA' rating in a new review of the small cap sector. Lead analyst on the review Varun Venkatraman said all the strategies reviewed had outperformed both the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries index and the S&P/ASX200 ...

Standard Risk Measure misleading

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... Investors may have already been misled by the Standard Risk Measure adopted by superannuation funds, said research house Van Eyk. Anomalies are caused by funds being able to choose how they calculate the risk of a product, said Van Eyk's head of strategic ...

AMP re-signs van Eyk for three years

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
Following a recent review, AMP Financial Services has re-signed van Eyk Research for another three years to provide the Group's advisers with access to the research provider's iRate online platform. The iRate platform provides the Group's advisers with ...

Macquarie focuses on independents with Visor

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... of the existing research offering, integrating a Mercer Investments feed to sit alongside existing research feeds from Van Eyk, Lonsec and Morningstar.

Long-volatility a loss-maker: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... volatility strategy is active management as long-only positions can lead to losses, said a recently released paper by van Eyk. van Eyk's research tested a number of different investment portfolios, which combined varying amounts of volatility strategies ...

Aberdeen fixed income manager resigns

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... material to the ratings of the Aberdeen Australian Fixed and Floating Rate Funds," said Jason Blumberg senior analyst at van Eyk. "We will be meeting with Aberdeen's management in the coming days to better understand the full impact of this announcement ...

Lonsec changes index funds research process

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... conducting a peer relative assessment of people and resources, investment process, liquidity and performance," added Elsworth. van Eyk initiated coverage of exchange traded index funds (ETFs) last year and recently changed its ratings method to reflect ...

Active risk under spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... tracking error is good, so long as it's in combination with persistent excess returns." Recent analysis by ratings house van Eyk on its database found that if three randomly selected active managers were combined in a portfolio, only two stockholdings ...

Gensler to depart T. Rowe Price

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... for the T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund will take over Gensler's responsibilities in other regions. Ratings agency Van Eyk, which announced the retirement yesterday said there would be no change to the high ratings of the fund. "We have a high regard ...

Goldman Sachs equities fund awarded AA rating

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australian Equities Wholesale Fund has received the AA rating in van Eyk's Australian Equities Review 2012. This is the first time van Eyk has awarded the AA rating in Australian equities since 2009. The review considered ...