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New partner for First Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... firm specialising in active equity management and global macro strategies, has appointed Jia Ye as a new partner in the company. Ye, who currently holds the position of chief investment strategist, will remain in that role. "[Despite being made partner] ...

AIF CIO jumps ship to Asciano

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... announced his resignation yesterday as he prepares to assume the role of director, commercial at transport infrastructure company, Asciano. McGregor has also resigned as a director of Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited (AIFL) and as director, infrastructure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... reported about $US16 billion ($A18.24 billion) in mortgage-related write-downs and adjustments in the worst quarter in the company's history. Shortly after unofficial close, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 276.47 points, or 2.22 per cent, at ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

Perpetual FUM falls by $700m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... decline includes a $200 million payment to Perpetual investors in the fund manager's half-year net distributions. The company also received an inflow of approximately $150 million of Australian equities from an institutional client, and net inflows of ...

GSJBWAM appoints infrastructure exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... received strong interest. In 2006, Lonsec awarded the fund an 'upper recommended' rating, the highest rating the research company had awarded to an infrastructure fund in Australia at the time. According to GSJBWAM, the firm has one of the most experienced ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... had not invested into many emerging market companies, it was still possible to invest under their charter. "If it is a company operating in a country of concern, we look at different aspects of it way before looking at the financials. We would look if ...

City Pacific to buy MFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... $500 million. The offer excludes the purchase of Stella Tourism Group, which, earlier this month, purchased UK travel company, Global Travel Group PLC. "The board of MFS has advised that it will evaluate the proposal as it agrees with City Pacific that ...

Funds SA splurges $1.4b on mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... away from current managers. GSJBW will manage the mandate using the Australian Quantitative Equity strategy, based on the company's CORE quantitative equity process, which utilises quantitative techniques to analyse fundamental inputs in order to assess ...

CMC poses new threat in online broking

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... for the long term, while taking advantage of market movements in the short and medium-term," Trew said. "The integrated company will fill the void left by other brokers which have aligned themselves with the banks. It will combine our respective specialist ...