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OS property no place for risk taking

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... dynamics in the Australian investment management market. Referring to the demand for Australian assets being shown by Canadian and South Korean institutional investors, Andrews said, "Super funds are no longer just competing with eachother [for potential ...

AustSuper backs away from SYD takeover

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... Airport. These laws may explain why AustralianSuper, which is an investor through IFM, has teamed up with Middle Eastern and Canadian pension funds. Macquarie currently has the largest stake in Sydney Airport at 16.8%. For the past two years this stake ...

Macquarie sells private wealth business in Canada

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Macquarie Group has entered into an agreement for the sale of Macquarie Private Wealth Canada, its Canadian retail business. Canadian independent wealth management firm Richardson GMP bought the business, which has more than 185 adviser teams in 12 ...

Reporting season reveals insurance black spots

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... better agent for change than industry losses," said Alain NA(C)emeh, executive vice president for RGA's Australian and Canadian businesses. Jim Minto, chief executive of Australia's largest life company TAL, told Financial Standard that life companies ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... dark pools threaten the fairness of price discovery and market liquidity. Researchers analysed dark trading within the Canadian market before and after the introduction of minimum price improvement rules in October 2012. They found that dark trading ...

Former BlackRock exec to head up new BMO operation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Canadian firm BMO Financial Group (BMO) will expand its asset management business into Australia, operating as BMO Global Asset Management. BMO's Australian branch will be based in Melbourne under the direction of Ravi Sriskandarajah, the former head ...

Canadian pension funds flock to Aussie infra

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
"Safe-haven" Australian infrastructure and property assets are seeing a wave of interest from Canadian pension fund investors, according to The Trust Company. Fresh from a visit to some of Canada's leading pension funds, Andrew Cannane, general manager ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... Making news on Thursday, Leighton said it will sell 70 per cent its telecommunications assets worth $885 million, to a Canadian pension fund. Leighton was up eight cents at $20.70. Wall Street ended lower, with the Dow backpedalling 0.23 per cent.

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... globally," said Small. "Smart beta is the natural evolution of ETFs and we believe that Australia, being likened to the Canadian market, which now sits at over $50 billion in total ETF FUM, can expect similar traction." Small adds that smart beta products ...

Hastings appoints executive director for North America

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... already working in North America. "The appointment of Irene is a significant boost to our firm's capability in the US and Canadian markets," Hastings chief executive Andrew Day said. "Hastings has a history of investing in North America, having long ...