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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... functioning of financial markets, the Federal Reserve will be closing the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility, and the Term Securities Lending ...

T. Rowe Price buys $19.7 bn Indian manager

COMPANY RELEAE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... average assets under management as at December 2009. The asset manager also acts as the investment manager of the UTI Mutual fund.

Eslake joins Wingate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
International equities fund manager, Wingate Asset Management, has appointed former ANZ Bank chief economist Saul Eslake to the investment advisory committee. Eslake was chief economist for 15 years at ANZ Bank and, prior to that, worked as chief economist ...

T. Rowe Price expands India footprint

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... cent stake in UTI Asset Management and UTI Trustee Company for around US$138 million. UTI is the country's oldest mutual fund institution and boasts a 10.1 per cent market share of the mutual fund industry in India with US$17.2 billion in funds under ...

Dimensional turns to value stocks in emerging markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... said the change is possible after an existing structure where the local group's global equity funds fed into it US mutual fund pools. "By investing directly in the underlying securities, we now have greater flexible to design strategies that maximise ...

State Street CEO and chairman retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... Street in 1986, Hooley has held a number of leadership positions with the company. After heading the company's US Mutual Fund sales organisation, Hooley joined State Street's shareholder servicing joint venture with Kansas City-based DST systems. From ...

Politics wield power over asset prices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... decision-making of hedge fund managers whose payoffs are more strongly-linked to their performance than the payoffs of mutual fund managers." In short, while the study didn't see a substantial difference between the performance of Democratic versus Republican ...

Treading on treacherous territory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
September is upon us! Yes, that single month of the year which historically has been statistically observed to be the cruellest for stock markets. Forget the "Great Crash" of October 1929 or "Black Monday" in October 1987, October's historical average ...

Macquarie buys Delaware Investments

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
Macquarie Group has entered into an agreement to buy Delaware Investments for $516 million - a move that deepens Macquarie's footprint in North America and adds a further $150 billion into its assets under management. Philadelphia-based Delaware currently ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on Monday, after US markets rose to a nine-month high overnight as manufacturing, housing and banking reports suggesting that the economy is gaining strength. At 0716 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...