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The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie joined Lonsec in early 2000, when it employed three analysts and provided research only to the Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of ...

AMP Capital invests in North American renewable assets

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... operates six power plants totalling 568 MW of operational generation capacity including British Columbia's largest run-of-river hydro facility (Toba Montrose) and largest wind farm (Dokie 1). The loan facility will be secured against a 264 MW portfolio ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
The Australian share market has opened slightly higher following strong overseas leads. Wall Street's S&P 500 topped 2,000 points for the first time during last night's session but fell back to close 0.48 per cent higher. The broad US gains were partly ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

AMP rebuilds European team with key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... O'Donnell as portfolio manager and analyst to be part of the rejigged European team. O'Donnell was previously at F&C Thames River, where he was a European analyst and covered all European real estate securities. The appointments come three months after ...

Five Oceans to be disbanded

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... 16 July 2014, the investor funds in the Five Oceans World Fund will be managed by another Fidante boutique, London-based River and Mercantile Asset Management (R&M). The fund will adopt a new benchmark, the MSCI All Countries World Index, as R&M differs ...

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... infrastructure manager, Whitehelm Capital, global credit investor, Bentham Asset Management and global equities managers River & Mercantile and Tempo Asset Management. Fidante Partners' boutiques operate from locations in London, Singapore, Los Angeles ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... change of government after the September general election, Contact Energy led the benchmark NZX 50 Index lower, with Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy also losing ground. The index fell 27.72 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 5,161.41. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a mainly positive lead from Wall Street as investors weighed improved unemployment claims data ahead of a key monthly jobs report. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract ...