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Macquarie in talks with Charter Hall

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
The details behind Macquarie's venture to potentially sell its real estate management platform to Charter Hall are still sketchy - but one property expert predicts the outcome of the deal could create a new heavyweight property player in Australia. ...

Cromwell hires head of property services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... responsible for providing strategic leadership and ensuring the effective operation of Cromwell's property portfolio. Woodward's focus will be on the management of each of the properties within Cromwell's extensive national portfolio, with the goal of ...

AMP won't rely on M&A: Dunn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... does take some resilience and discipline - and make no mistake - we've got plenty of both." Dunn also noted the firm must focus on driving up net cash flows and generating new business activity, instead of relying on the sharemarket to gain assets under ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Australian stocks are set for a weaker opening with worse than expected US employment data causing significant falls on Wall Street. At 0821 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 72 points lower at 4,575. In economic ...

DKN buys BMG stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
DKN Financial Group has bought a 32 per cent stake in BMG Partners and BMG Financial Planning, a long-term Lonsdale Financial Group associate. This is the first equity investment made by DKN in a Lonsdale practice since the merger of DKN and Lonsdale ...

CFS signs distribution deal with Aspect

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... arrangement with Select Asset Management will be wound up, Brendan Foley, executive chair at Select. "We repositioned last year to focus on our own multi manager multi strategy fund for the SELECT portfolios so as a consequence to that we're not going ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... against inflation) have become expensive as demand eclipse supply. It's a Catch-22, he said, gauging whether governments will focus on medium-term or long-term risks of economies deteriorating. What's worse, long-term risks such as the needs of the ageing ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Australian, Neil Harvey, has returned to Credit Suisse as managing director and head of Asia Pacific and head of emerging markets global for its asset management business after a stint in a number of other Asia Pacific firms. Harvey comes back to Credit ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Macquarie Group is eyeing Mexican infrastructure this new year, following the launch of a new infrastructure fund and winning $294 million in mandates from seven Mexican pension funds. In a press statement released late last week, Macquarie announced ...