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PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... banks, including the all-important area of bank deposit products. As one of the largest financial planning groups in the country with funds under advice of around $21 billion, PIS has grown from providing the basic services you'd expect from a planner ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... Greece? He was at it again last night - accusing Germany of being racist because of its hardline stance on aid for the country. Pangalos told Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Negocios that, "The Greeks have problems. Why do they have problems? Because ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... (PIBO) last November, which raised Kshs. 25 billion (AUD$350 million). This was the first listed bond traded through the country's automated trading platform (ATS) that was launched on the same month. The platform ushers a new era in local trading after ...

RBS adds to Aus markets team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... our markets business, where we see huge growth potential over the coming three to five years," said Stephen Williams, country executive and head of global banking and markets in Australia. "The repositioning of our Australian GBM business as one of RBS's ...

UBS and REST join forces for green infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... billion industry fund REST in a green energy investment project touted to be behind one of the largest wind farms in the country. Both REST and UBS GAM are buying the Collgar Wind Farm. UBS GAM is making the purchase through its International Infrastructure ...

SG Hiscock hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... where he worked across a number of sectors in Melbourne before taking a post in Hong Kong in 2005 to manage an Australian Country fund and the HSBC Asian Freestyle fund. Both these funds have similar strategies to SGH20 - high conviction, concentrated ...

AIA appoints non-exec chair

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... role, she is also chair of New Zealand Company Wool Partners International, a body that was set up to re-energise the country's wool sector. Gattung succeeds Raymond Jones who held the chair role since 2007 and now remains as one of the five directors ...

NZ Super buys Shell assets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Zealand business to simplify its global portfolio and concentrate on larger, integrated assets in growth markets. Rob Jager, country chair at Shell New Zealand, said staff will transfer to the new company and will continue to supply products through ...

BTIM realigns income and diversified funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... of soul searching - people trying to understand what they want out of their alternatives strategy." BTIM is one of the country's largest fund managers with a combined FUM of $36 billion as at December 2009. Gonzalez was previously chief investment officer ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... to a low of 5.93 per cent just last week. Sure yields have come back up again with every news item putting doubt on the country's salvation, but they have yet to revisit the decade high of 7.06 per cent reached in January this year. And the Fitch comes ...