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AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Demand for more infrastructure investment creates huge investment opportunities for super funds, and AustralianSuper intends taking a leadership role. The fund has not only announced intentions to appoint four major investment team leaders, including ...

Addwealth seeks women advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
WA-based financial planning firm Addwealth is looking to hire women advisers in each state across Australia as the group's female client base grows. Bronwen Parsons, general manager of Addwealth, said the firm is looking to fill a gap in the market ...

Perennial ramps up international business strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
Perennial Investment Partners has appointed an international business development manager to gain more UK, US and Middle Eastern clients. Michael Crivelli, executive chair at Perennial, said a number of the fund manager's boutique strategies are highly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overnight trading offshore, with major Wall Street indices all lower, but precious metals and copper were higher. Oil, too, fell. At 0748 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Liquidnet, a firm which provides a marketplace to facilitate institutional equities trading, is expanding its trading operations to include New Zealand listed securities. Liquidnet will commence trading of New Zealand equities next Tuesday, offering ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
"I've got chills, they're multiplying. And I'm losing control..." Grease. With European sovereign debt crisis still dangling over their heads like a "Damocles sword" - hey, isn't he Greek? - financial markets are again presented another source of worry. ...

Addwealth seeks to triple FUA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
WA dealer group Addwealth is aiming to more than triple its funds under advice (FUA) to reach $1 billion in three years, as part of its expansion plans to the Eastern seaboard. Paul Foster, chief executive of Addwealth, said he is looking to grow the ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Institutional investors may want to broaden their investment scope to farmland after a report found investments in agricultural property prices have fallen from the pre-crisis highs and may benefit from rising commodity prices. The Cerulli Edge: Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... rise was not enough to erase strong equity gains made on Wednesday, however, as investors saw the figures as affected by Easter. When markets settled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 21.46 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 11,144.57 points. The broad-market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... for the economy as well as the corporate earnings reports that start to arrive next week. Improved weather and an early Easter lifted sales at stores open at least a year by nine per cent, based on results from 31 retailers compiled by the International ...