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AMP buys $80m social infra fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
AMP Capital Investors has announced the acquisition of the RBS Social Infrastructure Trust, an Australian public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure fund with an $80 million portfolio of assets. The fund will be renamed the AMP Capital Community ...

Planners must follow insto go signal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Equity risk appetite is back in positive territory among institutional investors - a trend planners sitting on the cash fence should pay heed to or risk clients missing out on the upside, an expert told 400 advisers and investors at an Asgard forum. ...

ACCC opposes NAB/AXA merger

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The competition regulator has again opposed National Australia Bank's proposal to buy AXA Asia Pacific after reviewing the bank's revised bid, raising the chances of AXA AP's other suitor, AMP. Peter Kell, deputy chairman of the ACCC, said the proposed ...

LICs versus ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The issue of LICs and their younger cousin ETFs has risen yet again with a new Russell Investment report comparing the two investment vehicles, urging planners to look into ETFs as a new investment option. The benefits of such options include no entry ...

Perennial trusts retain ratings

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Ken West, one of the founding partners of Perennial Growth Management, retires tomorrow, but his leaving will not affect the ratings of several Perennial products, according to Standard & Poor's. The ratings on the Perennial Growth Shares Wholesale ...

CERTITUDE appoints head of distrib

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... $5.5 billion in assets under management. Mowll said that the company's and Ortiz first order of business is to build out a plan for the new distribution network and grow the company's strong relationships base in these new segments.

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
European investors are leading the charge into Asian equities, according to Fidelity executives. "Based on money flows we have seen, Europeans are more bullish than Asians on equity markets in general," said Fidelity Australia's managing director, Gerard ...

Let the lobbying begin

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
The Independents holding the balance of power in Federal Parliament could be subjected to three years of intense lobbying as the financial services industry comes to grips with a minority government. Industry bodies remain united in their desire to ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
A French protest rally involving hundreds of thousands of French nationals marched the streets of Paris and beyond in protest to proposed retirement age changes. Thousands marched through over 130 towns and cities in a united protest against President ...