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More countries sign up for REITs

The US$1.03 trillion global real estate investment trust (REIT) sector is poised for further growth with UK and Germany setting up REIT-like investment structures next year and other countries such as Italy, Finland, Mexico and Spain considering it. ...

New global head of currency for SSgA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed a new global head of currency management. Collin Crownover leaves his role as head of the investor risk advisory team with Citigroup New York and London to head up SSgA's currency management group. He ...

PIMCO promotes to fill gap in portfolio team

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
PIMCO has promoted internally to replace Kumar Palghat who recently left the team after several years as head of portfolio management Australia. Rob Mead, head of European credit portfolio management and based in PIMCO's Munich office, will take on ...

Citigroup taps into migrant banking needs

Citigroup Australia's Global Transaction Services division has this week launched a new retail banking service that will provide low cost and secure remittance facilities for immigrants sending money back to their former home countries. "This is a large ...

Marketers urged to target over-50s

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
Instead of chasing the fickle Generations X and Y, superannuation marketers could take their lead from an American marketing group urging businesses to turn their attention to a far wealthier and they say just as fickle demographic group, the over-50s. ...

Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
TOWER has appointed former MetLife managing director, Gavin Pearce, as its new chief executive officer of investments in Australia. Pearce, formerly both managing director of MetLife Insurance Australia and the former Citicorp Life Insurance business ...

Westfield raises US$1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
Westfield Group has taken the opportunity to extend the maturity profile of its funding with a US$1.5 billion issue of senior guaranteed notes that were priced into the US corporate debt market last Thursday. The notes were structured in two tranches ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

It's not the glass ceiling. A new study has found that men are more likely to have a better lifestyle come retirement because they tend to save more and save earlier than women. The Mars versus Venus debate reared its ugly head once again at the latest ...

Advice scam nets accountant 8 years inside

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
An accountant who fleeced nearly $1 million from investors through his financial advice business has been jailed for eight years. Piet Walters was found guilty of 14 charges of dishonesty relating to $972,000 given to his Drury Management business in ...