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AMP wins Asset Super mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
AMP has won a mandate from the $1.2 billion Asset Super to manage its socially responsible investment option. AMP's appointment follows the fund's asset consultant Mercer's recommendation. AMP replaces Maple Brown Abbott. The Socially Responsible option ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Dow 10,000! So now...tell me...how do you put a negative spin on that? Not when Annie's tomorrow becomes today. "The sun'll come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!" Tomorrow's taken a year to come, but it has come. The ...

Challenger selects Five Oceans for Asian equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Challenger Managed Investments has changed the investment manager of its Asian and China funds from Halbis Capital Management to Five Oceans Asset Management, resulting in a revised investment strategy. Challenger bought HSBC's asset management division ...

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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... is due out. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment for September will also be released. In equities, ABB Grain Ltd shareholders will meet to consider a scheme of arrangement to enable takeover by Viterra Inc. The World Bank will ...

BlackRock tops diversified funds review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
BlackRock Investment Management is the only fund manager to receive a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec in its diversified funds sector review. Deanne Fuller, investment analyst at Lonsec, said the fund manager's rating was upgraded from last ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Meredith Whitney is the name, don't wear it out! It took just one woman with gumption to whip Wall Street back in the right direction. US President Obama, displaying his inherent gift of the gab, was ignored. So were US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben ...

Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
The $1.3 billion industry fund Club Plus Super has axed the majority of its Aussie equities investment managers - leaving the fund with just four major managers to take care of a $400 million domestic equities portfolio. Club Plus Super, the industry ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Just as leading Unions have stepped up their battle against lifting the retirement age, the government has been forced to dismiss their claims for special rules for manual workers labelling them unfair. The Australian newspaper today reported that the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... among the pigeons for a while," said EL&C Baillieu Stockbroking director Richard Morrow. "We have had a takeover emerge of ABB Grain, so that sent shares in that sector quite sharply higher," he said. At 1206 AEST, shares in GrainCorp were up 7.93 per ...