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Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... contribute to the nation building goals set out in the government's infrastructure plan." Macquarie Group's Capital Funds division manages more than $131 billion in assets around the world, with 47 listed and unlisted funds managing over 110 assets and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... earnings report from JPMorgan made investors wary, he said. "Although JPMorgan had a relatively good profit, their retail division was fairly weak and that may translate into a bit of nervousness for our retail banks. "I don't think it's really warranted. ...

Perpetual Private Wealth boosts FUA to $8.5bn

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Perpetual caps the year with its third acquisition in private wealth, which takes the division's total funds under advice (FUA) to $8.5 billion. This week Perpetual bought Melbourne-based advisory firm Fordham Group for $35 million, a deal that is expected ...

GSJBWAM Aussie equities wins rating upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management's (GSJBW) Australian equities team continues to impress ratings houses after gaining another rating upgrade from Lonsec. Lonsec upgraded the GSJBW Australian equities portfolio from 'investment grade' to 'recommended'. ...

Shadforth signs direct shares deal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... signed Praemium to provide portfolio administration services to its clients. Nick Bedding, chief executive of the advice division at Shadforths, said the group was looking for a highly efficient and scalable solution that would allow the group to centralise ...

PIMCO to expand Australian product suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... Australian market including the possibility of distributing equities products locally from its newly created equities division based in London and New York. In addition, he said the firm had received a lot of demand for an Australian bond ETF. PIMCO ...

Securitor adds planners and expands research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... financial planners in its dealer group. Apart from adding more planners, Younger said Securitor had enhanced its research division - the Centre for Excellence - by hiring former Lonsec head of research, Piers Bolger, to the team and developing more research ...

AIG rebrands as Chartis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
AIG has been relaunched as Chartis throughout Australasia. Chris Townsend, chief executive of Chartis, acknowledged that the image of the insurance giant's parent company, AIG, has been tarnished followings the firm's trials during the GFC. "This is ...

Deloitte expands Islamic finance business

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... Deloitte is pushing further into Islamic finance with the appointment of a global leader to manage the Shariah compliant division's operations. Daud Vicary Abdullah was appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu global leader of the Islamic Finance Industry ...

Zurich ramps up investment business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Australia has promoted Matthew Drennan to general manager of investments as part of a strategy to expand its investments division. Drennan, previously director of investments at the firm, will report to David Smith, chief executive at Zurich Financial ...