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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

Listed investment research group Morningstar has acquired Standard & Poor's (S&P) mutual fund data businesses globally for $70 million ($US55 million) in cash, a move that effectively gives Morningstar a 'monopoly' on managed funds data in Australia. ...

Australia to become an investment exporter: Perpetual

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
The biggest challenge facing funds managers is finding places to invest the wall of money that is flowing into Australia's already $1 trillion funds management market, said Emilio Gonzales, chief investment officer for Perpetual Investments. Illustrating ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Average weekly earnings data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released yesterday showed that in seasonally adjusted terms full-time adult ordinary time earnings rose by 0.7 per cent during the period from August to November last year. This meant ...

Future Fund appoints in anticipation of kick-off

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
The Future Fund has appointed of a new head of operations and a new head of finance in anticipation of its looming inaugural task of investing $40 billion into the market. Gordon McKellar joins the team as head of operations, making the move from the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
The Labour Price Index released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday shows that in seasonally adjusted terms the overall growth to December last year from a year earlier was 4 per cent which was composed of a 3.8 per cent increase in private ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed an 'On Hold' rating on BlackRock's global small cap funds and downgraded the Australian small companies funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia (CSAMA) after the departures of their small cap portfolio ...

Japan set to jump on global PE train

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
A study conducted by Adveq, the Swiss private equity fund of funds manager, has found that Japanese institutional investors are set to follow Australian investors and institutions the world over in increasing their private equity allocations. The study ...

Meet the $9b intangible fund

In a short visit to Sydney, a London based fund manager from Morgan Stanley explained why investors have poured nearly $9 billion (US$7 billion) into a portfolio that values companies based on their 'invisible' assets. In Australia the fund has attracted ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a slighter stronger lead from Wall Street on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0711 AEDT, the March share price index contract was up 11 points to 5935. On the corporate front, the ...