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Macq steaks $700m fund

Macquarie predicts Australia's livestock businesses will benefit from the growing world consumption of red meat and has set up a fund that will target $700 million of acquisition opportunities in the sector. Macquarie Pastoral Fund was launched in January  ...

UBS global shake-up at the top

Peter Wuffli, the group chief executive officer of UBS, has been replaced by deputy group CEO Marcel Rhoner. In a statement released this week, the group did not specify details on Peter Wuffli's departure. Instead it stated that Rohner, who was promoted ...

K2 keeps kicking goals

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Absolute return manager K2 Asset Management is trumpeting strong returns from its international and Asian funds, exceeding its own healthy performance targets. K2's Select International Fund achieved net returns of 33.7 per cent for the year to end ...

Internationals in rare win over Aussies

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
International equity markets outperformed Australian shares in May for the first time since January this year, according to the latest Mercer Consulting sector survey. The survey said that sustained global growth, low inflation and continued merger ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

QSuper, the superannuation fund for the Queensland Government, will roll out a host of initiatives that will help improve the financial literacy of its 470,000-odd members, including the largely overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter ...

Mellon scores Asset Super mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
Mellon Global Investments Australia has been awarded an $18 million mandate from Asset Super for its Mellon Global Alpha Trust, adding to its collection of 26 others. The Global Alpha Trust, launched in January 2004, is a multi-strategy long-short product ...

ASX preps for emissions scheme

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is gearing up to introduce a futures market for emissions following the government's decision to introduce an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). ASX has welcomed the move and said it will provide business with certainty ...

Legg Mason FOHF rated four stars

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Legg Mason's fund of hedge funds product the Legg Mason Permal Investment Holdings Trust has been awarded a four star rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P). S&P fund analyst, Lee Comper, said the rating was awarded on the back of a stable and highly experienced ...

Sunsuper launches free advice call centre

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
Sunsuper has introduced a new member advice centre to provide free over-the-phone financial advice to members. Following a successful trial, the centre's introduction completes a suite of Sunsuper financial advice services, including the member service ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Some key data that the Reserve Bank of Australia will need for its decision on the next interest rate move, being retail trade activity, has just been released and it shows the January rebound of a revised 0.8 per cent which is nearly as high as its ...