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Lazard targets instos with new EM fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Lazard Asset Management has opened up its Developing Markets Equity Fund to Australian institutional investors. The fund is managed out of the firm's New York office and is based on a strategy that has been running since 2008. The product was opened ...

Macq Life signs the Teachers Health Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Macquarie Life will provide its new insurance solution, Macquarie Life Active, through a new distribution agreement with the Teachers Health Fund. This is the first time Macquarie Life Active will be distributed through a health fund, after its initial ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with all significant equities indices down sharply, along with base metals. Precious metals were higher, however, as was oil. On the ASX 24 at 0715 AEDT, the ...

Clouds gather in financial services

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Financial services software group IQ Business Group (IQ) responds to regulatory concerns against 'cloud computing' in financial services and says the widespread use of cloud systems is a sign of the times. IQ came forward after the Australian Prudential ...

PIH planners vote yes to merger, future uncertain

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Professional Investment Holdings is a step closer to merging with Centrepoint Alliance after the majority of PIH planners agreed to the deal - but there's a big question mark on how many of them will stay at the new firm. PIH shareholders in four separate ...

AIA signs record number of corporate funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
AIA Australia has won mandates from 40 small to medium size corporate super schemes in the last 12 months. Damien Green, chief executive of AIA Australia, said that the number of schemes that have contracted AIA for insurance offerings has risen dramatically. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
The Australian stock market was lower at noon as uncertainty over European sovereign debt troubled investors and with a lack of local data to provide direction. At 1210 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.7 points, or 0.45 per cent, at ...

Former Soros partner targets retail market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
A former partner of the legendary global macro investor George Soros has launched a new offering for retail investors and is looking for distribution partners and white label providers to expand its presence. Swita Investment Management, formed in late ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Blame it on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in America. Financial markets are running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of ...