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One down, more to follow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... Accounts figures result in a weaker or stronger than expected reading, one thing is for sure. The continued deterioration in offshore markets would certainly have a negative impact on the Australian economy going forward. This is because it would reduce ...

Pengana wins ex-Rubicon investors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... reorganisations, capital management initiatives, and capital structure arbitrage among others. "Most of our clients are offshore fund of funds, sovereign wealth funds or pension plans. Pengana seeded us with $2 million [but] we currently have an investor ...

US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... firms and investors subject to some, but not all, SEC regulation. More than 35 per cent of Australian funds are invested offshore and approximately one third of that is invested in North America, mostly in equities, according to John O'Shaughnessy, IFSA ...

Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... head of Australian equities, Ian Harding. The fund manager will be providing seeding to Wavestone to establish a new offshore absolute return fund based in the Cayman Islands, taking the boutique's business to over $100 million in contracted funds under ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... Group, Babcock & Brown, Allco Finance Group and Challenger made them unattractive. They said they would prefer to invest offshore or bid for assets directly, rather than invest in the offerings of these groups. Roland Winn, the head of research at the ...

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... funds which may not be priced and traded at the same speed. However, CommSec warned there is a currency risk involved in offshore index based ETFs, as movements in the value of the Australian dollar and the Japanese yen exchange rate could change the ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... Australia credit market over the past decade, and bond holders that there was a view that the reason Wesfarmers went offshore to raise US$650 million of debt earlier this year was that it could not get any support locally. Mottolini said a number of ...

SAM seeks retail distributor for theme funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... partnership with a major investment institution in Australia to essentially launch these funds," he said. "What we're seeing offshore is the interest in these funds is more retail than institution, therefore we need to find somebody with a retail distribution ...

Atom joins SII global group

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... known as Indian Ocean Rim Asset Management, strategy is heavily focused on company research which is conducted in its offshore offices in Bangalore. "The opportunities for global knowledge sharing will deliver Atom a competitive advantage at home in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... plunged 11.5 per cent, or by 24 cents to 185, after the short term cost of the move of much of the company's manufacturing offshore was revealed. Fisher & Paykel helped take the benchmark NZSX-50 index down 16.99 points to 3334.15.