S&P upgrades Premium Asia Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has today upgraded the Macquarie Investment Management-sponsored Premium Asia Fund to four stars and reclassified it as an alternative strategies equity product. We first rated

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S&P places Principal Global Strategic Income Fund ‘On Hold’

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today moved the rating on the Principal Global Strategic Income fund from Four Stars to ‘On Hold’ following the departure of Australian based co-portfolio manager

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S&P: No change to ratings on Australian Unity Healthcare Property Funds

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today announced that there would be no change to the four-star rating on the Australian Unity Healthcare Property Trust (Class A, Wholesale and Retail units),

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S&P moves rating on Invesco Wholesale Asian Consumer Demand Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has assigned a three-star rating to the Invesco Wholesale Asian Consumer Demand Fund. S&P placed the fund ‘On Hold’ on September 1, 2011 following notification by

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S&P assigns Four-Star ‘NEW’ Rating to Threadneedle Global Equity Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today released its four-star ‘NEW’ rating on the Threadneedle Global Equity Fund, managed by Threadneedle Asset Management.  Threadneedle is a dedicated global equities capability which

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Aviva Investors: winner S&P 2011 Australian Equities Small Cap award

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Aviva Investors has been awarded the Australian Equities – Small Cap sector award at the 2011 Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Fund Awards. These awards acknowledge leading fund managers in an

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Australian Unity Property Income Fund’s rating affirmed as Three-Star

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today affirmed the three-star rating held by Australian Unity Property Income fund.  The fund is managed by Australian Unity Property Ltd. and is a core

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Colonial First State Global Property Securities Fund rating unaffected by portfolio manager departure

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today stated its rating on the Colonial First State Wholesale Colliers Global Property Securities Fund is unaffected by the departure of Stuart Martin, a Senior

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S&P: Corals Commodity Fund rating unaffected by proposed change in Responsible Entity

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today stated that its rating on the Barclays Corals Commodity Fund is unaffected by Barclays’s proposed change of responsible entity from Aurora Funds Management to

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BlackRock Index Fund ratings unaffected by fee reduction

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today stated that its ratings on a range of BlackRock index funds are unaffected by the manager’s announcement that it would lower its management fees

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