Media Releases

Eight Investment Partners (8IP) has announced the appointment of Robert Roux as the new Chairman of its Board. Robert is the Chief Operating Officer of the Sanlam Investment Cluster. In addition, he heads up the International sub-cluster businesses, including Sanlam International Investments, Sanlam Asset Management Ireland, Sanlam UK and SIM Global. We are very fortunate [...]

Eight Investment Partners (8IP) has made a senior hire with the appointment of Marco Giubin as Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Investment Research. Marco, who will be based in 8IP`s Hong Kong office, has extensive experience investing in Asia Pacific markets. In his new role, Marco will be responsible for the overall research effort [...]

Zenith Investment Partners Pty Ltd (“Zenith”) has retained its ‘Recommended‘ rating for the 8IP Asia Pacific Partners Fund. This rating follows the initial Recommended rating awarded to the Fund in June 2011. In giving its `Recommended` rating, Zenith noted: “We believe that the key differentiator of the Fund is freedom of the Manager to seek [...]

Eight Investment Partners (8IP) has rebranded the Atom Small Cap Fund to 8IP Australian Small Companies Fund (the Fund) as the final step in integrating the two businesses into a unified investment house. The Atom business was consolidated into 8IP in March 2011 as part of 8IP`s plans to build a strong Australian equities capability [...]

During August 2011, the Asia Pacific ex Japan benchmark index fell around 8.5% in US$ terms. Our funds underperformed due to our positioning in small to mid cap stocks and pro-growth sectors. We did not expect the sharp fall in markets as valuations were reasonable and profitability was strong. While we still believe that we [...]

The Australian-domiciled 8IP Asia Pacific Partners Fund, that was launched as an unregistered managed investment scheme on 22 February 2010, has now been registered with ASIC as a retail scheme effective on 8 June 2011. Upon registration, the role of Fundhost Limited (Fundhost) (ABN 69 092 517 087) (AFSL No. 233 045) changed from Trustee [...]

Boutique Asia Pacific equities manager, Eight Investment Partners (8IP), has celebrated the twelve-month anniversary of its Asia Pacific Partners Fund (Partners Fund) with strong performance and a top Morningstar ranking. The Partners Fund, which was launched for Australian investors in early 2010, was the number one performing fund over six and 12 months in the [...]

Eight Investment Partners (8IP) and Atom Funds Management (Atom) are pleased to announce some positive changes that will see Atom consolidated into 8IP. The Atom investment team will now report into 8IP CIO, Kerry Series, whilst the operational and business development activities will be brought under the leadership of 8IP CEO, Rick Steele and Head [...]

The 8IP Asia Pacific Partners Fund (the Partners Fund) has been awarded a `Recommended` product assessment rating by leading investment research provider, Zenith Investment Partners Pty Ltd (Zenith).  Zenith is the first firm to rate the product, which was launched to Australian investors just over 12 months ago. Eight Investment Partners (8IP) established the Partners [...]