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Credit Suisse to focus on alternatives and EM

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Credit Suisse Investments Australia (Credit Suisse) will focus on alternative investments and emerging markets after it sold the bulk of its fund offerings - credit and property portfolios worth $1.8 billion - to fund manager Challenger. While Credit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...

Challenger buys Credit Suisse funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... Loan Fund, Global Income Fund, Syndicated Loan Fund and High Yield Fund. "This new boutique partnership will allow us to focus on executing our investment strategies while benefiting from Challenger's scale in administration and distribution," said Quin. ...

Paragem targets practices with portfolio service

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... Investment Committee (AAIC). The firm's investment manager, Jon Reilly, assists the committee. "Implemented Portfolios will not focus on specific benchmarks but will look at investors' individual risk tolerance and investment goals," said Haynes. "This ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... several pre-qualified international parties to create a new corporate group called Southern Star Corporation, which will focus on pulp manufacturing and plantation-based forest management. The new entity's principal assets will be a bleached hardwood ...

Hermes appoints ex-Fortis chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... funds, global credit, global equity and European equity add to the organically grown emerging market, small and mid-cap and focus fund equity teams, along with commodities, real estate, government bond teams and equity ownership service.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Australian shares are likely to slump on Wednesday after US and European stocks dropped as fears spread that Europe's attempt to contain Greece's debt crisis would fail. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The political focus might be on the government's $9 billion super profits tax slug on miners, but employer groups say lifting SG by one third will hit them twice as hard. "The superannuation levy increase is the biggest new taxing measure in the Government ...

AMP hires senior portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... manager, Van Athukorala, to the newly-created role of senior portfolio manager, Future Directions Funds. Athukorala will focus on large and small cap Australian equities and international equities portfolios. He has more than 17 years experience in investment ...

Govt infrastructure fund falls well short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... small amount of money - it's not going to make a significant impact," he said. In addition, he said the fund's resource focus does not address infrastructure issues across other sectors such as metropolitan infrastructure. "When people think about infrastructure ...