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Henderson acquires 33% stake in 90 West AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... firm in July 2011. The firm invests in agriculture, energy and mining. Henderson Global is a listed Australian and United Kingdom fund manager with $103 billion in assets under management.

UK AIC launches investor-friendly website

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
The United Kingdom-based Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has launched a new consumer-friendly and interactive website addressed to retail investors and their advisers. "Many investors see the AIC site as the first 'port of call' for learning ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... deter Americans from the shopping centres, ey? While everybody and his dog goes Dow watching, to the left of the United Kingdom on google maps is making big strides of its own, and its name is Ireland. Yes, Virginia the country known as 'The Celtic Tiger' ...

Second UK client for IRESS

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Software provider IRESS has secured its second major client in the United Kingdom. Wealth management company Towry has confirmed it will use IRESS's XPLAN software in its 18 offices across the United Kingdom. Towry's implementation of XPLAN is already ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... underweight largely due to governance issues, while sovereigns with high quality long-term ratings such as the United Kingdom and the United States were slightly underweight largely as a result of poor environmental indicators. Craig Hurt, director of ...

Australia becomes fourth largest pension pool

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... superannuation assets relative to GDP rose from 96% in 2011 to 101% in 2012, joining the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as countries where this ratio is higher than 100%. Australia now has the world's fourth largest ...

New Australian CEO for HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... with the HSBC Group. Cripps has more than 25 years of experience working with HSBC in Australia, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the Philippines. He began his career with HSBC as Head of Derivatives Trading in Australia in 1986. He also held a number ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... of the 13 councils involved. IMF was considering running similar cases in New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, he said. Walker said the councils would at least recover the $16 million lost on the products, but after interest and costs ...

Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... varies greatly across countries - from just 35% in Germany and 40% in France, to 78% in Australia and 86% in the United Kingdom. In the United States, which has a third of the world's billionaires, 73% are self-made. Compared with the rest of the world ...

Two global infra hires: AMP Capital

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... years in Sydney and New York. He previously held roles with Trafalgar Corporate in Australia, Merrill Lynch in the United Kingdom and Putnam Investments in the United States. Both will report to AMP Capital head of infrastructure Europe and North America ...