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Acadian buys CFS stake, becomes independent

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Global fund manager Acadian Asset Management has bought the 50% stake that Colonial First State (CFS) had in the firm's Australian division. After becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary, Acadian has appointed CFS as sole distributor of its investment strategies ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... help people to get better," Beatty said. The approach to training and nurturing talent means that everybody within the firm buys into the investment process and this has helped the fund manager's flagship Global Equity Trust return some 250% since inception ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
AustralianSuper has acquired a 49% stake in a building in Boston following a joint venture partnership with US-based Brookfield Property Partners. The property is valued at US$605 million (about $760 million), of which US$296.45 million (around $370 ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Liquidnet increases average trade size in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet grew its average Australian trade size to $1.8 million for the first quarter of the year, up from $1.7 million at the end of 2014. The company reported that this figure is 390 times greater than the $4,680 ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme today. Details about the ECB's first buys are still unavailable but Bloomberg reports that it started small and selective. "...purchases included bonds from at least ...

AMP Capital buys Sydney hospital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
AMP Capital has closed a deal to buy Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Health Services Public Private Partnership (PPP) Project from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Under the agreement, the asset manager will own the hospital until ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... BOJ's balance sheet increased to 57% of GDP at the end of September, up from 34% when the BOJ first implemented its bond buys in April 2013. And only last November, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) its key interest rates. These could delay the Fed's ...

NAB AM buys stake in UK fund manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
NAB Asset Management has taken an approximate 40% stake in newly-founded London-based fund manager Intermede Investment Partners. Intermede is an active global equities manager with a focus on investing in listed mid and large capitalisation companies. ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... consensus. So I'm wondering whether you personally see any major obstacles to taking decisions, for example on government bond buys, with a simple majority. Draghi : I'll answer both questions by reading the statement because the answers are contained ...