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Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... France's CAC-40 index gave up 5.4%; Italy's MIB index plunged 6.7%. And across the North Sea, the (literally) burning United Kingdom saw its FTSE-100 down 3.1%. The boo - France is about to burn. Never mind the more than 20% dive in Societe Generale's ...

New Russell manager to tackle prac management

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... RPM service has already been released for some time in other overseas markets including America, Canada and the United Kingdom with the investment manager finding the recent FOFA reforms providing a solid foundation to launch the program on in Australia. ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... over the weekend, "Operation Odyssey Dawn" added to the list of market uncertainties as the United States, the United Kingdom and France - with the blessing of the United Nations - started bombing Qaddafi's bum off his throne. And by the looks of it ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Germany 2.4 8. Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France 1.8 13. Iran 1.7 14. United Kingdom 1.7 15. Italy 1.5 Note that the G-7 - the world's biggest economies - along with China and India are in the list of the 15 ...

Ratings firm expands fund coverage

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... beyond the US to provide analyst research reports and ratings to CEF-equivalents such as investment trusts in the United Kingdom and listed investment companies in Australia. The research has set its sights on covering about 100 CEFs traded in the United ...

Tax reforms bolster local funds management

MEDIA RELEASES  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... domestic investment advisers." It will align Australia's taxing rules with international practice, such as the United Kingdom's Investment Manager Exemption. The new regime addresses a key finding of the Johnson Report - that the tax law discouraged ...

UK pension tenders $800m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... fund management services for an $800 million active currency hedging mandate. The four-year mandate is with the United Kingdom's 12th largest fund within the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), Avon Pension Fund, with assets as at March 2009 of $2.96 ...

Antin raises $1.5bn

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... commitments from approximately 35 investors from diverse countries: Scandinavia, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia in particular," said Mark Crosbie, managing partner. "The confidence placed in the Antin Infrastructure ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... this would be interpreted as, "this is exactly what the doctor ordered". But not now. Now we're in big trouble. United Kingdom. In its quarterly inflation report, the Bank of England said that the country's economic recovery would be slower than previously ...