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AXA Aus funds fall 11 pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
AXA Australia's funds under management, administration and advice dropped 11 per cent to $75.5 billion for the six months to the end of June, with falls in fund inflows and the value of new business. The firm posted a 20 per cent drop in inflows to ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...

Governance before crisis

... become a big topic because of corporate collapses. "If we go back to Enron at the end of 1990s and the collapse of other US funds, the trouble with dealing with [governance] at those times is that they were dealing with immediate issues that have to ...

Local biotech shines through overseas listing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... firm Starpharma may not have flagged much interest from local investors, but the company has attracted the attention of US funds. According to Jackie Fairley, chief executive of Starpharma, targeting US investors was a "natural avenue of support", particularly ...

Macquarie buys Allegiance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Macquarie Bank's Funds Management Group (MFMG) has deepened its roots in the US funds management market by scooping up California-based fixed income fund manager, Allegiance Investment Management. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed ...

Olympus and Contango explore India

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Specialist fund managers Olympus Funds Management and Contango Capital Partners have joined forces to unlock the gates of India's investment market to Australian investors. Contango recently acquired a 64 per cent stake in Olympus, an Indian investment ...

Olympus float on hold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
The joint initial public offering (IPO) of Asia Diversified Fund Ltd and Olympus Funds Management has been withdrawn this year due to the recent Asian market sell-off. "Given our track record in India and the significant potential across Asia, we are ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
Consumption expenditure in India accounts for 62 per cent of GDP placing it in the same league as developed nations like the US and Australia, highlighting that high-value consumer sectors such as financial services could be big investment opportunities ...

Aussie super funds leap into top 300

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... Watson Wyatt survey. Local funds grew at 68 per cent per annum in local currency terms over a three-year period, while US funds grew at only 9 per cent per annum in the same period. Large pension funds in the 'other - developed world' category grew at ...