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ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ING Investment Management (ING IM) and Credit Agricole Asset Management (Singapore) beat 36 global fund managers and custodians to manage the Philippine Government Service Insurance System's $1.1 billion global asset mandate. The Government Service ...

Green light on First Home Saver

The new government has delivered on its key election promise of addressing housing affordability when it established the 'First Home Saver Account' - a package of tax concessions and government contributions to help young Australians and low income ...

Power up on low emission stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
Fundamentally sound low-emission utility stocks represent good value following stock market corrections, according to Bakers Investment Group. Jeremy Baker, joint-managing director at Bakers Investment Group, said the company's AltexRed Index, which ...

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
As investors are left picking up the pieces from the recent share market and credit crash, some industry figures believe the answer lies in investors' ability to find a balance between investing with a long-term perspective, and making decisions quickly. ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
Credit Suisse Asset Management has expanded its multi-boutique platform by partnering with international equities manager Julius Baer Investment Management (JBIM). The first JBIM product is expected to be available to Credit Suisse clients by the second ...

Dewhurst to head Legg Mason's global expansion

Legg Mason is planning global domination and has appointed an Australian, former IOOF chief executive Ron Dewhurst, to do the job. Dewhurst has been appointed senior managing director and head of international asset management of the company effective ...

Streetwise $26m fraudster awaits sentence

Ten months after his arrest in the US, disgraced Streetwise property developer Kovelan Bangaru has finally appeared in court last week to face charges of misappropriating more than $26 million in investor funds. Bangaru pleaded guilty to 11 offences ...

MacarthurCook ventures to the long white cloud

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Listed investment management company, MacarthurCook Limited, has scooped a third of the equity in New Zealand-based property fund manager, Kinloch Funds Management - but future ventures into the NZ market remains uncertain. The recent acquisition will ...

Western Asset repositions for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Global fixed income manager, Western Asset Management, has weighted its portfolio towards European financial investment grade credit and mortgage backed securities to continue its positive return performance in 2008. "In terms of strategy we're going ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...