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US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
How the mighty have fallen. From Merrill Lynch to JPMorgan Chase, the world's investment banking stalwarts have all shed blood from the US sub-prime scalping - but Australian fund managers are weathering the storm. Last week, Merrill Lynch reported ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
There's growing expectation among European economists that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to follow the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England and start lowering interest rates. Ironically, iterations from executive board member Juergen ...

St Hilliers posts 5pc more

St Hilliers Funds Management has delivered five per cent more than its 15 per cent target following the sale of its fifth and final asset held in the St Hilliers Enhanced Property Fund No.1. St Hilliers general manager in funds management, Nicholas ...

The secret to MTAA's success

While some super funds like to keep their investment secrets close to their chests, top-ranked MTAA Super gives them all away in a handbook that outlines the investment strategies behind their outperformance in the past ten years. Inundated with regular ...

Investors want to unpack asset-backed transactions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
The securitisation industry needs to increase the level of transparency in its investor reporting to overcome scepticism about securitised products, the Reserve Bank has warned. RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle told the annual conference of the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
The Australian share market has had a mixed lead from Friday trading,with Wall Street up half a percentage point, oil up, gold and silver flat, and London metals mostly down. The Australian market is expected to open positively, however. At 0752 AEDT ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

Hedge fund and managed accounts administration provider Kingsway Taitz has won two mandates from arkx Funds Management and RTM Capital for and absolute return fund and multi strategy carbon fund. The RTM Absolute Return Fund aims to return cash plus ...

CommBank buys IWL

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has taken over broking technology provider IWL, dismissing the company's board and replacing chief executive Otto Buttula. The purchase became final after the Victorian Supreme Court authorised court orders lodged by IWL on Friday. ...

ASF to overhaul issuer disclosure

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
The securitisation market's peak body, the Australian Securitisation Forum, will rewrite disclosure standards for issuers of mortgage backed and asset backed securities in a bid to improve the marketability of local issuance in the global credit market. ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
A Cairns financial adviser has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to 14 fraud charges involving almost $1 million of client money. The Cairns District Court sentenced the man, Piet Cornelius Walters, on October 30, after he pleaded ...