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African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is steadily making changes to its structure to keep pace with its overseas counterparts, and the results are promising. Late last month, NSE chief executive Peter Mwangi, spoke at an industry forum about the progress ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
New York Life Investments liked Epoch Investment Partners' free cash flow strategies so much they bypassed the norm of buying equity in the company or hiring them as a fund manager among many - opting instead to tie up a strategic partnership deal that ...

Pillar sets new foundations

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Pillar has appointed former FuturePlus chief operations officer Bob Biancardi in a newly created senior post, ahead of the group's bigger plan to ramp up internal operations in the year that marks a turnaround in profitability. Industry veteran Biancardi ...

Malware attacks Chinese walls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Local fund managers looking to this year's Shanghai World Expo as a platform to offer their fund products are vulnerable to email-related security breaches after the discovery of a malware that targets the mailing list of the Expo's would-be attendees. ...

Lazard Japan appoints former JPMorgan head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Lazard Japan Asset Management beefs up its Japanese operations with the appointment of Keiichi Miki, former head of JP Morgan Asset Management (Japan) for eight years, as its new head. As representative director, Miki takes on the chief executive role ...

AXA Asia Pac shares on trading halt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
The countdown to the possible new owner of AXA Asia Pacific begins in earnest after the group requested a trading halt on its shares before noon today, ahead of a company announcement and a day before ACCC releases its findings on the AMP proposal. ...

Abu Dhabi sovereign fund chief missing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
The managing director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan, has been reported missing after a plane crash, according to international newspapers. UK newspapers including the Times and the Telegraph reported that Sheikh ...

Can an outsider transform ipac financial planning?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Can a top travel executive help lead a $5.5 billion financial planning business? That's the question advisers asked when financial planning group ipac appointed former American Express executive, Libby Roy, as the new head of its advice arm. Roy will ...

RBC Dexia wins Aii custody mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
RBC Dexia Investor Services has won a mandate from Australian Indexed Investments (Aii) to provide custody for their newly launched Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Aii is a member of the Euro Finance Group. Jim Socratous, managing director at Aii, said ...

BTIM realigns income and diversified funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
In his first 100 days as head of BT Investment Management, ex-Perpetual CIO Emilio Gonzalez has combined all of the fund's income capabilities under one roof, diversified funds in another and will be hiring two new senior appointments as part of the ...