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Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
Grove Financial Services and Counterpoint have joined forces to create a new asset consulting firm with a combined $11 billion of assets under advice. Simon Ibbetson, formerly at S&P and now the managing director at Grove said that the merger makes ...

BlackRock absorbs Impact

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
A new technology designed to help fund managers better demonstrate their investment methodology to clients is going to be exported in a big way after US giant BlackRock flagged plans to buy IT outfit Impact Investing. The deal is significant not only ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
In September when the sub-prime mess began unfolding, the big worry was whether it would spill over to the real economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks this may now be happening and has taken the problem to a whole new level requiring ...

Asgard eWRAP admin fees down 7.5pc

The cost of investing in managed funds through Asgard's eWRAP will fall by up to 7.5 per cent after the funds administration platform decided to pass on its tax savings. Dean Thomas, product general manager for St.George Wealth said the fee reduction ...

AMP loses share to banks in risk insurance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl acknowledged yesterday that life companies faced a challenge from the banks in one of their traditional strongholds, the risk insurance market. Mohl also announced he would leave AMP at the end of 2007 after five years ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Asia Pac fin services IT spend reach $2.3 trillion

A new study by global research firm Gartner has found that the financial services sector in the Asia Pacific region accounted for the bulk of server revenues last year, totalling $2.3 trillion. The communications sector came second with its $1.6 trillion ...

Private equity spree hurting managers: Suncorp

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The spate of private equity activity is making life hard for active fund managers, with index funds outperforming many Australian equities funds thanks to the soaring valuations of unloved stocks on the back of buyout speculation. According to Denis ...

Improve returns by picking losers: Triguboff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The best way to improve returns is to start looking at losing stocks, according to Michael Triguboff, managing director of MIR Investment Management. Speaking at the ipac Thought Leaders Event "Finding tomorrow's alpha", Tribuboff explained that both ...