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INGIM global emerging markets fund under new team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... the largest footprints in the emerging markets and these changes are seeking to capture these insights from within each country in a more efficient manner to ensure a better total performance outcome for our global emerging markets offerings." To illustrate ...

Citigroup hires Macq compliance exec

CITIGROUP MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Citigroup has appointed former Macquarie compliance head, Johanna Turner, as country compliance and control officer for Australia and New Zealand. She joins from Macquarie Group where she was global head of compliance for fixed income, currencies and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose on Tuesday on hopes that Beijing will ease back on tightening measures aimed at slowing the country's breakneck growth, traders said. The Hang Seng closed up 173.64 points, or 0.86 per cent, at 20,264.59 points. Turnover ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

... those that are sticking with a more traditional approach. On 19 July, one of the largest financial planning groups in the country, AMP Financial Services, opened the doors to its first retail financial planning centre in Parramatta in Western Sydney. ...

Aussies head to Britain for investments

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... largest pension funds in Canada with assets of $140 billion - more than treble the size of the biggest super fund in the country (the Cooper Review noted it as $41 billion but other research numbers elsewhere are higher). He said that given its scale ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... night. But they were ignored or spun positively. Moody's downgraded Portugal by two notches to A1 from Aa2 because the country's financial strength will "continue to weaken over the medium term, as evidenced by ongoing deterioration in the country's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... trade figures showing a massive and better-than-expected 43.9 per cent increase in exports gave some reassurance that the country continues to drive the global recovery. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares gained 34.08 points, or 0.66 per ...

CFSGAM aims for top quartile UN PRI performance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM), the largest fund manager in the country, mounts an ambitious strategy to rank as a top quartile fund based on performance when measured against the key principles set in the UN PRI. At a briefing ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... the notes." Lenders are giving it more than twice the amount it wants to borrow! Investors buying up more debt from a country that has the third biggest deficit in the Eurozone? What happened to the credit ratings downgrade and threats of more to come? ...