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CAAM backs oil rich EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... time. "We believe this is an indicator of country's potential. In particular, we are also positive on the Brazilian oil company - Petrobras." Adding to the long term growth outlook of Brazil, Mauppin-Higashino said the country recently found a number ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Industrial Average leapt 207.38 points or 1.85 per cent to 11,447. Microsoft, Google and IBM were all slapped as earnings and company outlooks failed to impress onlookers.

Garvan FP practice gains SAI approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Financial Planning Practices (FP9000) includes all the requirements of ISO 9001, is based on the SAI Global's Quality Endorsed Company program, a standard identifiable by its five ticks brand. MLC took the debate on quality of advice to the next level ...

Mariner targets European aged care

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... joint venture, Mariner Financial, which has $1.2 billion in assets, will have access to a property financier whose parent company, HSH Nordbank, has poured more than $330 billion in aged care investment and funding. The JV's target is to acquire worth ...

Westpac restructures fin services and tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... transition. Sias joined the bank last year. In other news, Westpac's group chief information officer Simon McNamara left the company last week. He will take on a new post as chief information officer for Standard Chartered's global consumer banking business ...

EQT jumps on board with Bravura

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... has rubber-stamped a five-year contract with wealth management firm Equity Trustees Limited (EQT) to implement the tech company's portfolio administration solution, Garradin. EQT has called on Bravura to upgrade its business from CIM to the Garradin ...

S&P names 2008 Fund Awards finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited ING Clarion Real Estate Securities LP Invesco Australia Limited SG Hiscock and Company & La Salle Investment Management (Equity Trustees Limited) International Equities-Developed Markets BlackRock Investment ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million proxy votes cast by fund managers in the past 12 months to confirm or dispel ...

OFG banks on bonds and property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... manager Eclipse Property Group, along with OFG's 100 per cent owned subsidiary Century Funds Management will increase the company's FUM to $930 million. In the coming year, Century Funds Management will release a new opportunistic unlisted fund to compliment ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... shareholder-owned companies. The Treasury is also seeking an increase in the current credit lines of US$2.25 billion for each company. The Treasury regards the bailout as necessary because, according to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: "Fannie Mae ...