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IFM beefs up Debt Investment team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... infrastructure debt capability in London. She was previously assistant vice president for Restructuring Business Support with Barclays, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University. She joins investment director David Cooper and associate ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... if I were you. Only last week, Macroeconomic Advisers lifted its US first quarter growth forecasts to 3.5% from 3.2%. Barclays did the same and raised its estimate to 3.3% from 2.5%. So did Capital Economics which now expects growth to come in at 3.0% ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... groups in the Australian investment management industry. Morry Waked formed Vinva in the wake of BlackRock's takeover of Barclays Global Investors, where Waked had worked as a senior portfolio manager. He took with him fellow BlackRock employees Nick ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... risk. Working with investment adviser Towers Watson, fund manager BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital, VicSuper has customised a new benchmark index by combining a tightly constrained sovereign benchmark with the credit ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Australia is not the only developed nation that believes it has a financial literacy and awareness problem as Barclays Bank in the UK has just released the results of a study that found Britain may have an even worse problem. The study found 36% of ...

Barclays cops $80,000 fine

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Barclays Bank has been fined by ASIC for breaching the corporations Act and withdrawing $13.8 million of client segregated accounts money without authorisation. The corporate watch dog yesterday confirmed that Barclays had paid an infringement penalty ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... to 7,305.21 points and in Paris the CAC 40 dipped by 0.14 per cent to 3,401.20. French fund manager Renaud Murail at Barclays Bourse said: "The market is in wait-and-see mode, with very thin volumes in the past few days." Madrid's IBEX 35 index was off ...

Peak in investment spend to herald lower growth: Barclays economist

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... significant growth slowdown in 2014. This was the overarching conclusion that Kieran Davies chief Australian economist with Barclays Bank left with delegates attending yesterday's Portfolio Risk Management forum hosted by Financial Standard. "It will ...

ipac securities awards Vinva $1.2bn mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... monitoring the progress of Vinva since it was formed in 2010 by a team of veteran investors that previously worked together at Barclays Global Investors. Based on its forward looking view of who was better positioned for the next two to three years ...

BlackRock loses $1.2 billion iPac Securities mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... lost fees," said Alex Dunnin, director of research & editorial services at Rainmaker. At the time of the merger with Barclays Global Investors in December 2009, BlackRock had $50 billion of assets under management - today it has approximately $46 billion. ...