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AXA inflows surge on 30 June deadline

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
Fuelled by the impending 30 June concession deadline for one-off super contributions, AXA Asia Pacific has reported a huge 51 per cent increase in net retail inflows for the three months to the end of March. Net inflows for the quarter hit $782.9 million ...

PIS Beijing office a world first

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
... markets. Speaking in Beijing, PIS chief executive officer, Robbie Bennetts, said that China's wealth management potential was a huge, untapped resource. "We're the first major financial planning group allowed into the China market, which gives a huge ...

NZ mortgage brokers face 25 per cent income cut

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
... 1,000 members alerting them to ANZ/National's proposals and telling them that if the bank is successful, this will have a huge impact on brokers' businesses. "If everybody follows suit, this is a 25 per cent reduction in (brokers') upfront income," Bawden ...

Overseas investors target Aussie super fund cash flows

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
Large numbers of overseas investment managers are targeting Australian super funds as they look to profit from the huge cash flows on offer, according to deputy managing director of Frontier Investment Consulting, Kristian Fok. Fok said that the Australian ...

Germany lifts retirement age

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... Legislators in the German Bundestag have voted to increase their country's retirement age from 65 to 67 years, overriding huge howls of protest from unions. Despite the strong protests, the vote was passed by a huge majority of 408 to only 169. Driving ...

Direct property is back, but now its global: Macq

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2007
... established bases in Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. James Hodgkinson, co-head of Macquarie Real Estate, said, "China is a huge opportunity. The average size of cities we invest in is 10 million people. The wealth is phenomenal. The emergence ...

New Paradigm for Opes Prime

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2007
... core securities lending and equity financing business. "The expertise and experience that Paradigm Capital brings will be of huge benefit to our existing clients, and support the increasing amount of business we conduct in Australia and Singapore." Smith ...

Private equity about multiples, not debt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... have to choose companies they are investing into very carefully. "The difference between a good company and a bad company is huge," said Adams. But the flood of money rushing into private equity also makes it much harder for investors seeking to place ...

Euro private equity awaits

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Private equity is a huge universe globally and Australian super funds would do well to broaden their horizons, according to privately owned European private equity and hedge fund of funds specialist Unigestion. "I think as far as [Australian] super ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population is ageing. The baby boomers, that huge bulge in population is now working through our society and it means over the next 10 and 20 years, the proportion of people ...