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Global instos flock to Asian infrastructure

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Asian Infrastructure & Related Resources Opportunity fund, one of the largest dedicated Asian infrastructure funds in the world, has closed with over $900 million from institutional investors including Australia. The fund ...

AMP appoints head of infrastructure

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Boe Pahari, former ABN AMRO executive, to the newly created role of head of infrastructure Asia Pacific. Pahari will support AMP Capital's continued expansion into Asia. Pahari will lead a team of investment professionals ...

Lessons learned from Opes Prime

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... AMSLA (Australian Master Securities Lending Agreement) was not suitable for many individual investors, particularly less savvy mum and dad investors, who signed up with Opes Prime. But it stopped short of recommending the banning of these products from ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
There's a new twist in the tale of what we thought to be the ended saga of the GFC. The US equity market's - and by extension most other stock market's - performance over the past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... details on where their money goes is an eye-opener. For example, while some Gen Yers have long been chided for relying on the 'mum-and-dad' bank, they are also a generation that has created the 'mates' bank, with 87 per cent of Gen Yers borrowing and ...

New tax code to drive Indian reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
India's tax reform proposals will boost local savings, drive investment volumes and push up long term growth in the capital markets. The reforms could lead to strong savings growth for India's middle income households, according research from Mumbai-based ...

AUI signs Asian equities jv

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... creating a new local competitor in the sector. Five months ago, David Bryant, head of investments at Australian Unity (AUI), kept mum on the details but said the group is looking to do more 50/50 joint ventures, possibly in international equities, listed ...

ASIC slaps six year ban for MIS fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Mum-and-dad investors in South Australia have been caught out in a $15.2 million fraud carried out by yet another finance company operating without a financial services licence. ASIC has banned Jonathan Peter West, of Athelstone, South Australia from ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... the SMA means millions of people who previously couldn't access the product can now do so. "If you're talking about ordinary mum-and-dad SG contributions, which represents nearly two thirds of the industry, SMAs aren't available for that [SG contributions] ...

ML downsizes private equity team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Merrill Lynch is scaling back its Sydney-based private equity division, according to industry sources. It is understood Merrill Lynch has axed many of the firm's Australian based private equity employees. A company spokesperson neither confirmed nor ...