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Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... benign," he said. The firm believes that opportunities exist for asset managers looking to capitalise on the recent market shake-ups, and suggests that wide discretion mandates are a key ingredient to adding value to their investment strategies.

ASSET switches to Integrity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ASSET Super has granted a $75 million Australian equities mandate to Integrity Investment Management, a deal that ends the super fund's four-year relationship with Concord Capital. "Concord weren't providing the performance the fund required. Investments ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
World economic growth is expected to drop by one-fifth in 2008 to 4.1 per cent down from 4.9 per cent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "There was a risk that the ongoing turmoil in financial markets would further reduce domestic ...

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Property fund manager, Valad Property Group, has launched a new wholesale property fund targeting the UK property market. Valad announced last week the close of its first capital raising for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... is able to transfer those funds to an account of their choice, and there are a lot of different parts [such as window pop ups and advertisements] that have come together in quite a comprehensive package to pose a problem," he said. McDonald added that ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...

SAP and CSC join forces on pricing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... customer sales opportunities." The CSC agreement is SAP's third deal with a banking provider in seven months. Previous tie-ups have included Misys and CallataA? and Wouters.

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
Like a house of cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after ...

Mariner ups stake in German property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
Mariner Financial has added more than 30 per cent to its current real estate platform with the acquisition of two properties in Gotha, Germany for A$52(-33) million. The properties, a retail supermarket and a government-leased office building, are both ...

Tassies downsize to upsize retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Many Tasmanians intend to sell their current home to part-fund their retirement and move to a 'smaller' property, a decision that could lead them into financial strife, according to Quadrant super chief executive Wayne Davy. Quadrant commissioned a ...