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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher. At ...

McCabe heads Coin as Jenkins resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Robert McCabe has been appointed head of product and technology for Coin/ Web, following the resignation of Darelle Jenkins as managing director of Coin Software. The head of product and technology structure for different divisions already exists in ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ipac has appointed $700 million mandates with GMO and Lazard as part of its Australian equities portfolio overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers ...

Britten to head BlackRock Global Investors in Aus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
Will Britten, the chief executive of BGI's local arm, will take over the reins at the soon-to-merge $44 billion-plus fund manager, BlackRock Global Investors in Australia, with BlackRock Australia chief executive, Maurice O'Shannassy, leaving the firm. ...

...and adds to insto sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Macquarie Global Investments has appointed James Duivenbode to its institutional sales team, replacing Angus Carson who left to the firm a couple of months ago. Duivenbode joins the team after working across a number of investment areas including private ...

Oasis adds two groups and recovers FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... inflows and good results from industry surveys." Oasis has also launched its suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs) from Barclay's Global Investors and State Street Global Advisors onto the platform. The six ETFs include the iShares S&P 500, iShares MSCI ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... the week. Stock indices have risen in nine of the past 11 days. The market got a boost from a new economic forecast by Barclay's Capital, which raised its projection for growth in the nation's gross domestic product for first three months of next year ...

Barclays owns 5pc stake in Challenger

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Barclays Global Investors has become a substantial shareholder of Challenger Financial Services with a 5.01 per cent stake in the James Packer-backed firm. In an ASX announcement yesterday, Challenger confirmed that BGI became a holder of the firm on ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
Active managers enter a sweet spot in investments history with a three-year window to seriously make a mint for their investors, said BGI. The analysis paper, Why the financial crisis has made markets less efficient, by Andrew Jackson, director of research ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
The $1.1 billion Asset Super has recently completed the last stage of its investment restructuring process, including changes to the fund's cash, international and Australian equities, alternative and international fixed interest mandates. Recently ...