AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES

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The United Funds Management group has dropped growth oriented Credit Suisse First Boston from its pool of active Australian equities managers in favour of the style neutr...

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Perennial Investment Partners has been applauded for making a number of good strategic choices in its funds management process, with the Assirt research house saying the ...

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The Westpac Bank’s acquisition of the BT Financial Group has continued to wreak havoc on the beleaguered fund manager’s Australian equities capabilities, with two investm...

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IOOF Investment Manager and its subsidiary Perennial will need to make significant investments in growing staff numbers and infrastructure if they want to establish thems...

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Morningstar has released its business and management strength rating for IOOF and its funds management arm Perennial Partners giving the group a three out of five rating,...

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Perpetual Trustees Australia today reported a full year net profit of $75.6 million, up 38 per cent from the prior year....

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THE MELBOURNE-based Treasury Group has announced its intention to acquire a stake in a series of small fund managers as part of an ambitious bid to become an umbrella gro...

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Advisers are more optimistic than investors that the share market will improve in the next six months and are also likely to allocate twice as much to international equit...

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Perpetual Investments has taken a step away from its key man approach to the management of its flagship Australian equities fund, the Perpetual Industrial Share Fund, in ...

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Assirt has given Deutsche Asset Management a tick for its Global Equities Opportunities Fund, but a cross for the fund manager’s international fixed interest capabilities...

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HSBC Asset Management (Australia) has been given an average rating by two major research houses this week, scoring a three in Morningstar’s Business and Management Streng...

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The Assirt research house has downgraded Colonial First State Investment’s Australian equities capabilities and demoted the majority of its Australian equity products ahe...

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Assirt rates Tower’s business management as competent while rating its operating capability as strong in its review of the funds manager....

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There used to be one name for fund managers who pooled money to invest with a range of fund managers. So what happened? FIONA MOORE reports on the rise of the multi-manag...

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The March quarter market share results from both Morningstar/ Plan for Life and Assist demonstrates the volume of money currently flowing into the united groups....

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