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Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Government of Singapore Investment Corp and an unidentified Middle Eastern investor (rumoured to be a state controlled fund from Oman) have chipped in $11.6 billion in capital into UBS to lift it out of the sub-prime funding jungle. This is the latest ...

Instos to buy more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Local institutional investors will continue to pour more money into private equity and real estate, according to a new report on alternative investments. The annual Russell Investments Survey on Alternative Investing report surveyed 326 institutions ...

AUI to enter Qld mortgages market

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has made the first of a series of appointments designed to take advantage of the booming property sector in Queensland. The group has appointed Richard Dickson as the first senior lending manager of the mortgages fund ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Australian stocks had made respectable gains by midday today following a modest lead from Wall St's Friday close and mixed metal prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 88.5 points higher at 6550.3, while the All Ordinaries gained 87.2 ...

GESB revamps website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
Western Australia's largest superannuation fund, the Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB), has revamped their website to help better educate their members and answer their superannuation-related questions. The website includes a superannuation ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
Looks like the May budget's tax cuts have poured straight into cash registers as retail spending data has shown a blow-out that has the market not just certain Cup Day will win us a rate hike but there will likely be another one under the Christmas ...

Super veterans accept Industry Service Awards

ING Australia superannuation strategy manager Graeme Colley, Cbus chief executive Sandy Grant and director of AMP Corporate Superannuation Greg Healy are the inaugural recipients of the 2007 Rainmaker SelectingSuper Industry Service awards. Colley ...

Funding costs trim Suncorp banking profit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
Suncorp Metway managing director John Mulcahy told the annual meeting yesterday it expected the credit crunch to trim between $10 million and $15 million from the "bottom line full-year result" of the group's banking business, though Suncorp did not ...

Under-building down under

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
While the sub-prime meltdown has left the US economy bruised with housing oversupplied and house prices soggy, Australian housing is suffering from supply shortages and prices going through the roof. US economic growth has progressively slowed, where ...

Babcock & Brown launches DIF III

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
The third offering from Babcock & Brown's successful Direct Investment Fund range, which invests in global alternative assets, has attracted the attention of several superannuation funds including Military Super and the WA Local Government Super. Following ...