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Macquarie buys Delaware Investments

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... investment products and services to retail and institutional investors through managed accounts, separate accounts, mutual funds, retirement accounts, sub-advised funds and others. Founded in 1929, the firm has approximately 580 people in its employ ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... banking sent investors more signals that the economy is gathering strength. The index is used as a benchmark for many mutual funds. Indices all rose more than one per cent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which climbed 115 points. The market's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... chips since October 2002 and the best July since 1989. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index, a benchmark for many mutual funds, also ran at a strong pace and July was its best performance since 1997. Even with the gains, the S&P is still down 37 per ...

Mutual funds gain record flows

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... Equity and bond funds in the US attracted over $300 billion in the first half of this year -the best net flows in mutual funds for more than two years, according to a report. The Strategic Insight global mutual fund database shows 85 long-term products ...

Corporate governance needs national voice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... said. "The institutional groups that exist are investment management associations and may be there to simply market mutual funds, they hardly talk about corporate governance at all and they're very conflicted."

J.P. Morgan wins Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... J.P. Morgan has won a mandate with fund manager Capital International Research to provide services for the group's mutual funds recently launched to Australian and New Zealand investors. J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services will provide global custody ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... funds they manage that is sufficient to assess whether any fund poses a threat to financial stability." Regulation of mutual funds will also be reviewed with a view to making them less susceptible to runs. A by-product of the regulatory expansion however ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... alternatives. It will also offer clients diversified access to global markets through separate accounts, common trust funds, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, and closed-end funds. Barclay's ETF platform iShares currently has over $367 billion of AUM ...

BNP increases stake in Indian mega broker

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... Investors as a leading online broker in Europe, to rapidly develop its online trading business and the marketing of mutual funds and life insurance," he said. Olivier Le Grand, head of BNP Paribas Investors, said India will emerge as a powerhouse economy ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Mutual funds are beating their institutional counterparts with the former reporting almost 30 per cent less outflows during last year. According Callan Associates, institutional asset losses were "extensive" across 17 traditional equity and fixed income ...