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Cbus invests in direct property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Cbus pumps much needed funds into direct property following a partnership deal with investment manager DEXUS to develop an office tower in Sydney. Cbus Property, a wholly-owned subsidiary of industry super fund Cbus, has acquired a one-third interest ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

MLCIC wins $600m mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
MLC Implemented Consulting (MLCIC) has won a $600 million mandate from health insurance provider HCF to advise on and implement the group's investments. MLCIC won the mandate after a five-month consultation period, due, according to MLCIC general manager ...

Northern Trust opens local shop

Global custodian Northern Trust, the US-based custodian selected by the $51 billion Future Fund, flagged its more serious intention to service the local market with the grand opening of an Australian headquarters. In May, the Future Fund handed the ...

CFS feels the rhythm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has gotten with the groove by agreeing to purchase a major music copyright catalogue from DreamWorks Music Publishing as it prepares to launch a media-focused investment fund. CFS first formed its ...

Super fund ARIA buys Chifley Square

Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the super fund for Australian government employees, showed it is serious about direct property after shelling out $84.5 million for a 92 per cent stake in 1 Chifley Square, an iconic building at the heart ...

Industry and retail fund bickering needs to stop: Planners

The consensus among planners who attended the van Eyk conference in Sydney this week was clear: industry and retail funds need to stop bickering and instead serve consumers as a homogeneous front. On the same day that IFSA released research revealing ...

Platypus leads pack with 44.4 per cent return

A little-known Sydney-based fund manager Platypus Asset Management has beaten the big guns to take the top spot in Intech's fund manager performance league tables this year. According to Intech's figures on the best performers in the Australian equities ...

MFS assets tops $3 billion

McLaughlins Financial Services Limited (MFSL), a subsidiary of listed diversified investments group MFS, has been appointed as the new Responsible Entity (RE) for the PH Sydney Hotel Trust and the Challenger Howard Property Trust. Among the assets managed ...

Australian Business head to chair Asset Super

Warren Adcock has retired as chair of Asset Super and will be replaced by David Michaelis, currently president of Australian Business Ltd. Adcock spent 18 years as chair of Asset Super and was foundation director and trustee of the fund when Asset was ...