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Consortium buys Challenger Infrastructure Fund assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... Infrastructure Fund has sold half of its asset base for $A286.79 million to a consortium which includes Australian super funds and a Dutch pension fund. Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIF) has entered into a binding sale agreement for its 66.2% stake ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... cojones, emboldened by the growing clamour against austerity from French voters and the Spaniards, and the Italians and the Dutch. And oh, judging from austerity crusader Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) recent defeat to the pro-growth Social ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... again last week, screened as the political uncertainty sparked by the runoff elections in France and the resignation of the Dutch government and Standard & Poor's two-notched downgrade of Spain's credit rating from A to BBB+ with a negative outlook. ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... Hollande is elected Premier Ministre. No more Merkozy. C'e la vie. Holland. It's the austerity question too that's led the Dutch government to collapse. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned after the weekend's budget negotiations collapsed. Rutte ...

Northern Trust wins Dutch pension mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... Northern Trust Asset Management has won a mandate for the passive management of a EUR200m listed real estate portfolio from Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering. Wouter Jan Naborn, head of asset management for the EUR4.3bn Dutch hospitality ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... for the country, the group representing the private creditors said as the deadline for the deal draws near. AMSTERDAM - Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders has called for a national referendum on abandoning the euro and reintroducing the guilder. ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... insults to my country by Mr. Schaeuble. I don't accept it as a Greek. Who is Mr. Schaeuble to ridicule Greece? Who are the Dutch? Who are the Finns? We always had the pride to defend not just our own freedom, not just our own country, but the freedom ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... and the fear has spread to the others. The extra yield investors demanded to hold French, Belgian, Spanish, Austrian and Dutch bonds instead of Germany's bunds widened last night. But Spud, have you looked at the yield offered by German bunds? At 2.5% ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... $33.84 after The Australian newspaper reported the company's efforts to raise equity could be complicated by a delay in Royal Dutch Shell's sale of its $7 billion stake, Mr Milroy said. Jittery investors are also treading water ahead of a European leaders ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... from Recommended to Fund Watch, after UBS Global Asset Management said it would buy ING Investment Management subject to Dutch Central Bank approval. "At this stage there is significant uncertainty surrounding with ING IM funds would sit on this boutique ...