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Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... capital raising for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector opportunities in the UK. HBOS entity, Bank of Scotland, has since become a cornerstone equity investor of the fund. The fund, which is aiming for an equity internal ...

Perpetual upgrades unit registry systems

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Perpetual is the first client to implement consulting firm Bravura's wrap application and use Sonata Business Services - an end-to-end business solution delivering enterprise workflow management and document imaging across the fund manager's back office. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher as Wall Street gained ground on the prospect that the US central bank will lift interest rates again and base metal prices generally were up. The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets tonight ...

Yellow Brick Road leads to Calliva

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Advice and investment management company, Yellow Brick Road, has begun its spending spree purchasing financial planning firm Calliva Wealth. Sean Aylmer, head of communications and research at Yellow Brick Road, said the company has spent the last six ...

Water fund washes onto BT wraps

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... KBC, who manages the Global Water Fund, is a new entrant to the Australian market. Belgian-based KBC is the tenth largest bank in the European Monetary Union and manages $2.4 billion in water mandates as at 30 September last year.

English FX specialist turns local

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Uk-based foreign exchange and payments specialist, Caxton FX, has made the leap into the Australian forex market - throwing a fresh challenge to banking institutions that have traditionally been the dominant players in the forex sector. The company ...

Morgan Stanley launches new FX strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... Australia, the Morgan Stanley FX Alpha Fund aspires to target a gross annualised return of four per cent above the UBS Australian bank bill index, with an estimated value at risk (VaR) of four per cent. The Morgan Stanley FX Alpha Plus Fund will aim ...

Bank downgraded in $8.2b scam

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... arm already under pressure in the current markets. International ratings agency, Fitch, has moved quickly to downgrade the bank's rating from "AA" to "AA-", and its individual rating from "B" to "A/B", following a profit warning announcement made by ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... growth will reduce energy demand. It's understood that high oil prices have staunched interest rates cuts in Europe where the Bank of England and the European Central Bank remain worried about high inflation. However, energy supply concerns are a guilt-edged ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on a positive lead from Wall St and higher commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 76 points at 5,619. The Australian share market jumped ...