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PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The wave of private equity (PE) investment stirring political concerns in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the US, has prompted Australian academics to attempt a review of how PE investments should be regulated in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians ...

Cbus wins Investment Stewardship Award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
Cbus has won the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium's inaugural Investment Stewardship Award recognising long-term investment achievement by a financial services organisation. To win the award, finalists were evaluated according to financial results ...

Private equity lending restrained at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Westpac Institutional Bank group executive Phil Chronican spelled out the bank's approach to providing leverage finance to private equity groups at an investor briefing this week. The bank has been active in supporting private equity transactions "that ...

MFS broadens product range

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
Australian Stock Exchange listed investment manager MFS has launched two new funds in response to client demand, the MFS Cash Enhanced Fund and the MFS Dynamic Growth Equity Fund. Philip Adams, MFS managing director, said the funds were created to respond ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open up again on the recovery on Wall Street overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0825 AEDT, the March share price index contract was UP 23 points at 5825. In the corporate world, the frenzy of the ...

B&B profits jump with new funds in the pipeline

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... 62 per cent jump in net profits for 2006 to $406.8 million, ahead of most market expectations of around $390 million. But Phil Green, chief executive of B&B, was characteristically cautious about the coming year. "I'd much prefer to surprise on the upside ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed an 'On Hold' rating on BlackRock's global small cap funds and downgraded the Australian small companies funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia (CSAMA) after the departures of their small cap portfolio ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
Super funds will have much greater scope to offer financial services and even transaction banking facilities to their retired members under the Simplified Super changes announced in last year's Budget. The abolition of taxes on super benefits, both ...

Tyndall beefs up EPiC

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
Tyndall has released an upgrade to its free interactive web based tool, the Efficient Portfolio Constructor (EPiC). EPiC assists advisers to create and optimise portfolios containing managed funds. Advisers are able to get detailed information on performance ...

Perpetual enters lending business with Wignalls

... Perpetual has expanded its corporate trust arm by buying Adelaide-based company Wignalls Lenders Mortgage Services (Wignalls). Phil Vernon, the group executive for the corporate trust division, said the acquisition was part of their strategy to extend ...