AMP Capital Investors Limited

AMP Capital Investors is a specialist investment manager with over $101 billion in funds under management at 30 September 2008. As a wholly owned subsidiary of AMP, AMP Capital Investors operates independently with a pure investment focus, while benefiting from the resources of its parent. Its team of over 200 in-house investment professionals and a carefully selected network of investment partners, allows AMP Capital Investors to offer significant depth and breadth of investment expertise.

AMP Capital Investors offer a range of investment choices - from traditional listed markets to specialist investments. Its specialist investment teams offer investment opportunities across a diverse range of disciplines including equities, bonds, property, infrastructure, private equity, diversified and multi-manager funds. These investments are available through single asset or multi-asset wholesale unit trusts and AMP’s Investment Linked Superannuation Fund or through separately managed portfolios (tailored to investors’ liquidity, risk and return needs).

AQR Capital Management

AQR Capital Management, LLC is an investment management firm employing a disciplined multi-asset, global research process. AQR’s investment products span from aggressive high volatility market-neutral hedge funds, to low volatility benchmark-driven traditional products. Investment decisions are made using a series of global asset allocation, arbitrage, and security selection models, and implemented using proprietary trading and risk-management systems. In the alternative space, AQR has continued to develop innovative strategies and believes insight from managing alternative strategies directly enhances their ability to attract and retain staff and provide cutting edge thinking to their investment processes, both in traditional and alternative investments.

The research of AQR's principals is internationally recognized and has resulted in numerous published papers in a variety of professional journals since 1991. As of 31 October, 2011, AQR managed approximately USD 42 billion across its series of investment strategies and employees approximately 240 people. The company is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Catholic Church Insurances Limited

Catholic Church Insurances Limited has a proud history of serving the Catholic community for almost 100 years. The investment expertise and knowledge of Catholic Church Insurances Limited combined with excellent relationships with a network of consultants allows us to invest Church funds responsibly. Over the years we have experienced significant growth in our business with funds under management

DWS Global Equity Thematic Fund

Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited is the Responsible Entity of the DWS Global Equity Thematic Fund. As a leading global institutional asset manager, Deutsche Asset Management brings together some of the best investment strategies from around the world to institutional investors. Deutsche Asset Management has delegated the management of the fund to Global Thematic Partners LLC (GTP), an independent investment adviser registered with the SEC based in New York.

GTP’s philosophy is based on the view that there is one global economy and one market and thus analyses it as one investable entity. GTP tries to identify global trends – or themes – that can lead to those stocks with the potential to help deliver long-term outperformance and makes no assumptions regarding “appropriate” country or sector allocation.

ING

ING Investment management is the specialist global investment arm of ING Group, one of the leading financial services companies in the world. With the strength and resources to attract the industry’s best investment talent and a commitment to research and risk management, ING Investment management provides clients with competitive investment solutions to meet their long-term financial goals.

With more than A$650 billion in assets under management world wide across different asset classes, ING Investment Management ranks among the top 20 asset managers globally. In Australia, ING Investment Management also has a strong presence, with our specialist  teams management over A$30 billion of client’s assets.

JCP Investment Partners

Founded in 1998, JCP is a research-driven, fundamental investment manager with the proven ability to add strong positive excess returns and diversification benefits to client portfolios. JCP currently manages over A$7.5b across 4 strategies:

• Benchmark Based,
• Benchmark Insensitive,
• Long-Short; and
• Absolute Return.

JCP offers a range of enhancements for each of our investment strategies. For example, all of their strategies can be managed on an after-tax basis.

JCP’s strong competitive advantage comes from combining the ‘art’ and ‘science’ of investing. This means more efficient processing of research insights into consistent probability-weighted return and risk outputs, and more efficient idea generation through smart optimisation combined with a sensible qualitative overlay.

JCP Investment Partners is 100% owned by its staff and its ownership structure aligns its interests with those of its clients.

LaSalle Investment Management

LaSalle operates in 16 countries worldwide. The company only invest in real estate, combining property knowledge with a disciplined investment management approach. LaSalle has a global investment perspective, fostered by the insights of a 25 person strong global research team and experienced fund managers.

The company operates a dedicated team model. Supported by a global platform, investment teams operate as entrepreneurial groups, pursuing a clear investment philosophy for each client and fund. Each team is responsible for the entire life cycle of investment management, including acquisitions, ongoing asset management and sales – and is directly accountable for performance.

Macquarie

Macquarie Investment Management Limited is part of the Macquarie Funds Group, a group within Macquarie. As a full service fund manager with over 25 years experience, Macquarie Funds Group offers a diverse range of products including managed funds across a wide range of asset classes, funds-based structured products, hedge funds and funds of funds.

Macquarie Funds Group has a global reach with a team of over 600 staff across 19 global locations. As at 31 December 2008 Macquarie Funds Group had over $68 billion in funds under management. Macquarie began investment management activities in 1980.

MFS Investment Management

MFS Investment Management is a global investment firm managing equity and fixed income assets for institutional and individual investors worldwide. Founded in 1924, MFS established one of the world’s first in-house fundamental research departments in 1932.

In the 1970s, MFS introduced their first quantitative capabilities. Today, MFS offers a broad range of investment styles that combine both fundamental and quantitative research and portfolio management.  The investment philosophy has remained consistent: to identify opportunities on behalf of clients based on comprehensive research and bottom-up security selection.

MFS’ culture is investment-driven, client-centered, and collaborative. To underscore the company’s values of collaboration and accountability, the company has structure ownership and compensation to reward long-term investment performance and teamwork. Up to 22% ownership of MFS is available to key contributors. The majority shareholder since 1982 has been Sun Life Financial, Inc.

OnePath

OnePath is one of Australia’s leading providers of wealth, insurance and advice solutions. The company has been helping Australians grow and protect their wealth for over 130 years, previously as Mercantile Mutual and more recently as ING Australia.

Now as a wholly owned subsidiary of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), OnePath operates as part of ANZ’s specialist wealth business.

ANZ is a leading global and local bank with operations in more than 32 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. ANZ provides products and services to more than eight million retail customers worldwide and employs over 48,000 people.

Perennial

Perennial Investment Partners is a specialist, active investment management firm, comprising a suite of specialist investment management boutiques:

• Perennial Value,
• Perennial Growth,
• Perennial Fixed Interest,
• Perennial International and
• Perennial Real Estate.

Established in 1999, Perennial pioneered the boutique partnership approach, building a suite of boutique investment firms on the basis of sharing equity ownership with their investment professionals. Perennial now invests over $14 billion on behalf of wholesale and retail clients, and believes that this ownership structure changes the focus from simply investing to a shared passion and focus. The future success of Perennial is dependant on the ability to deliver performance and it is our belief that through equity ownership by investment professionals we have created an environment where the interests of investors and investment professionals are more clearly aligned than traditional fund management company structures.

Perennial’s achievements are attributable to the success of our approach to a partnership business model. Our investment boutiques have won numerous Fund Manager of the Year awards and are often ranked highly amongst their respective peers in delivering superior investment performance to our clients.

Perpetual Investment Management

Founded in Sydney in 1886 as Perpetual Trustees, Perpetual is today one of the Top 100 companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and manage investment funds exceeding $27 billion, administer over $209 billion of client funds, and advise clients on over $8 billion of investments (as at 31 December 2010). 

PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd

PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd was established in 1997 and provides investment management services in both domestic and global fixed interest strategies to a range of clients in Australia and New Zealand.

PIMCO offers a full spectrum of core and alternative strategies across domestic, regional and global mandates. It is one of the largest, deepest and best known fixed income managers. PIMCO’s insights and solutions stem from a proven investment process that produces both cyclical (short-term) and secular (3-5 year) macroeconomic views and that combines those forecasts with in-depth credit research, security analysis and risk management.

Schroders Investment Management

Schroders manages A$292.1 billion of assets (as at 30 September 2011) on behalf of institutional and retail investors, financial institutions and high net worth clients from around the world, invested in a broad range of asset classes across equities, fixed income and alternatives.

The company employs 2905 talented people worldwide operating from 32 offices in 25 different countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

Schroders has developed under stable ownership for over 200 years. Long-term thinking governs their approach to investing, building client relationships and growing their business.