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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... Billiton's hostile $US68 billion ($A84.5 billion) bid for Rio Tinto last year - to probe their proposed iron ore joint venture in Western Australia. Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals surged 26 cents, or 8.36 per cent, to $3.37. Among the major banks at ...

Crisis curbs Cuffe charity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
The Third Link Growth fund, launched last year by former CFS chief executive Chris Cuffe, only attracted $28 million in funds, well below Cuffe's $150 million target and despite the fund's outperformance. One year on, the fund lost more than 13 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... the share prices of global miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The two mining giants announced a massive iron ore joint-venture in Western Australia, and Rio launched a $US15.2 billion ($A18.96 billion) rights issue as it scrapped its proposed $US19.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... almost one and a half per cent higher at noon on Friday, as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto announced a massive joint iron ore venture, and Rio launched at $US15.2 billion rights issue. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 51.4 points, or 1.31 per ...

Merger creates 18,500 adviser force

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
Morgan Stanley and Citi have given the go-ahead to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture - a move that will create a global organisation with 18,500 advisers. The deal between Citi for Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley was closed last night. In ...

LMW Invest teams up with Denison

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
LMW Invest and The Denison Group have formed a joint venture aimed at delivering traditional syndicated property investments to retail investors. An eight level office tower in North Sydney, with forecast fund yield of 9 per cent, is the first building ...

LaSalle raises $400m in Mexican fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... retail, industrial and office properties throughout Mexico. The fund also has the option to invest in hotels and joint venture partners, where appropriate. Eduardo Guemez, chief executive (Mexico) of LaSalle Investment Management, said that the group ...

Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... investments in debt markets. Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Oak Hill Advisors were both appointed new mandates in the space. Venture capital fund of funds manager Montagu Newhall also received a private equity mandate - a sector which makes up over ...

Secondaries top PE list

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Superannuation funds with cash to spare should consider picking investment gems from the private equity secondary market - which is clearly favouring the buyer in this current environment, said a global expert. Sally Collier, partner at Pantheon Ventures ...

BNP increases stake in Indian mega broker

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... more than 500 offices across India. Geojit BNP Paribas also has a presence in the United Arab Emirates through a joint venture with Barjeel Geojit Securities and in Saudi Arabia via Aloula Geojit Brokerage Company. C J George, chief executive at Geojit ...