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DeAM launches global agribusiness fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Proving that agribusiness is about the long term and not just tax minimisation, Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has announced the launch of a global agribusiness fund. Driving the fund is the worldwide economic growth, rising income levels in the developing ...

New research analyst for AllianceBernstein

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
AllianceBernstein has announced the appointment a new research analyst to the Bernstein Value Equities team. Viral Patel joins the Bernstein Australian Value Equities team where he will have responsibility for the real estate and construction sectors ...

Partnership blooms between ipac and Flowers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Ipac securities has welcomed another practice into its fold with the formation of a business partnership with Flowers Financial Group. Ipac has partnered with the planning side of the Flowers Financial Group business, based in Sydney. Flowers consists ...

Houses at half price

... cent of the cost of property. St George bank and property group Australand have banded together to offer a 'co-ownership plan', a type of shared equity arrangement product with a twist. Essentially, their home loan products break the ownership 50-50 ...

ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... and services from the public. "Despite the obvious hunger for information about managing money in the community, the ALP plan to abolish funding for the Financial Literacy Foundation. This is part of their so called savings drive to meet their own exorbitant ...

BlackRock gets rolling with Citi

BlackRock Australia scored a coup when they signed up Citigroup to their separately managed accounts (SMA) product, a deal that will make their SMA available to a market of over 100 dealer groups or around 120,000 client accounts at a stroke. It's like ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

Employers in the US are turning to unregulated, low-cost investment vehicles called 'collective funds' and regulated 'retirement services' funds to house their staff's pension instead of using traditional managed funds. According to the latest 'industry ...

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Shared equity lenders are preparing for a turf war with reverse mortgage lenders for the retiree equity release market. The first non-government shared equity loan, Rismark's equity finance mortgage, is being marketed at this stage to first home buyers ...

Perennial appoints investment specialist

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2007
Perennial Investment Partners has appointed a new investment specialist for the Victoria/Tasmania region. Angelo Saltarelli joins Perennial from ING and brings with him 17 years of industry experience. Brian Thomas, head of retail funds management ...

Fund manager transparency getting worse

Fund managers are getting so sophisticated with their PR that there's more spin than substance to the raft of information they churn out today compared with a decade ago. Angela Ashton, head of research at IWL, said that it's gotten so bad fund managers ...