Watch part six of an Investment Magazine roundtable held on the sidelines of the Markets Summit on 14 February 2011. Editor Simon Mumme speaks with asset class specialists from funds management companies in Australia and Asia: Victor Rodriguez, head of Australian fixed income, Aberdeen Asset Management : Victor Rodrigues on the Greek Debt crisis Victor Rodriguez talks Australian … Read more
In April 2010 Bill Bovingdon was driving his Toyota Kluger on South Australia’s Coorong Peninsula when he got a call from a headhunter. With his wife pressing the mobile phone to his ear, Bovingdon was asked whether he was interested in in becoming the head of fixed income at a large Australian asset manager. “After … Read more
Van Athukorala, a senior portfolio manager, will leave the combined investment team of AMP Capital and IPAC on March 30. “As a result of the teams merging we identified duplication in four roles,” says an AMP Capital statement. Guneet Rana, a senior investment manager, Simon Romijn, a senior investment specialist and John Zavone, a senior … Read more
James Spenceley may be the most important man in asset management and stockbroking in Australia many have never heard of. Spenceley’s Vocus Communications has laid 140 kilometres of fibre optic in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Some of it is in Sydney links the finance community with Chi-X Australia Ltd. and ASX Group’s Gore Hill data … Read more
Mark Levinson, the head of transition management at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Australia, will leave the firm and join a nascent hedge fund. Levinson, who joined New York-based Goldman Sachs in 2008,says he will join a firm of 10 people who formerly worked at Morgan Stanley, Tudor Investment Corp. and Pimco. It is not … Read more
Active asset managers are hired by the $1.3 trillion superannuation fund industry so they can differentiate themselves from each other, says Wilson Sy, a visiting fellow at the University of Western Australia who was a senior advisor to the Super System Review. Sy says the debate on whether active or passive asset management is a … Read more
Perpetual Ltd. chief executive Geoff Lloyd was listening patiently to a homophobic rant. Henri Aram, who says he is “close to 90” years old, was railing against “same sex marriage.” “It’s a very, very substantial problem,” says Aram, who arrived in Australia in December 1938 to escape the Holocaust. He says he has held stock … Read more
Ella Brown doesn’t mince her words. AMP Capital’s head of fundamental equities says some Australian boutique fund managers have an inflated reputation. “Just because people are in a boutique it doesn’t mean they have more commitment to the product than us at AMP Capital. We have very passionate portfolio managers,” says Brown. She says there … Read more
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