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Alternative investment giant eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... Partners), real estate opportunity fund (Blackstone Real Estate Partners), fund of hedge funds business and two closed-end mutual funds (The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund).

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... as Nordea Funds and Nordea Life & Pensions. In addition, JPMorgan will provide depository services to in-country mutual funds via Nordea's branches in Denmark, Finland and Norway. As a result of the deal, Nordea's marketing relationship with The Bank ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... Terror-Free Index Series is also tradable and suitable for the creation of retail investment products such as ETFs and Mutual Funds." Companies excluded from the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free indexes were informed prior to finalising the construction and given ...

Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience of US investors in equity mutual funds and found the index, on average, outperformed by 7.5 per cent annually over 20 years. "Inevitably market timers will lose ...

Hunter Hall extends Bravura deal

... management functions. It is modular and can be used for platforms, wholesale investment management, registry and mutual funds, and custody. It is one of Bravura's stable of finance software applications including Sonata, Rufus, Talisman and Babel. Michelle ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... have shifted away from riskier investments such as stocks for the historic safer haven options of gold, REITs and mutual funds.

Markets not governments set interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... Highlighting the power transition, McKinsey has just released a report arguing that the expanding role of pension funds, mutual funds, oil-rich countries and Asian central banks is redefining how the global economy should be managed. This is because ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... people have any retirement savings and most of this is in either government sponsored funds holding sovereign bonds or mutual funds. But where this may be specially enticing for Australian investors is in the area of alternative energy because the Indian ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... India's savings rates that exceeds 20 per cent the potential for the sector seems clear cut. This momentum helped push mutual funds in India to double last year to reach US$140 billion. "Going by the latest trends it can only get better from here. Over ...

India's investment exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... "India's regulatory structure can be compared to where Australia was perhaps in the early 1980s," he said. However, the mutual funds market in India may not be strong enough to lead the improvements in regulation on their own as it may require banking ...