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AMP and AXA SA propose final offer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
AMP and AXA SA have sweetened the bid for AXA Asia Pacific, increasing the cash component of the proposal in a move that the firms said is their best and final offer. The revised proposal means AXA Asia Pacific's minority shareholders are being offered ...

Pengana finds gems in emerging companies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
The Pengana Emerging Companies Fund is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and investors will be happy to know they have pocketed more than 15 per cent annualised net return for their investments. Ed Prendergast, fund manager at Pengana, said a combination ...

Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
More than half of the country's ASX200 listed companies don't have a female board director - prompting one gender advocacy group to release a name-and-shame report on the gender imbalance that continues to prevail in the financial services sector. Women ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
The Australian sharemarket was more than one per cent lower at noon, in a broad-based declined led by the miners, after the US market declined overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 56.9 points, or 1.19 per cent, at 4,717.7 ...

EQT reopens small companies fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Equity Trustees and SG Hiscock have reopened their EQT SGH Wholesale Small Companies Fund after a hiatus. Equity Trustees is the Responsible Entity of the fund, while SG Hiscock is the investment manager. The move follows increasing interest from existing ...

Solaris wins CFS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management has been awarded a mandate by Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The mandate takes Solaris's funds under management to $3.4 billion since inception in January 2008. Denis Donohue, managing ...

Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management clocked $1 billion from institutional investors within seven months under its unusual low fixed fee plus performance-fee based payment structure - proof that Frontier's proposed flat dollar fee model has massive insto appeal. ...

Macquarie buys Canadian dealer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Macquarie Group has bought Canadian investment dealer Blackmont Capital for $95 million ($C93.3 million) as the finance giant's global buying spree continues, and will rename the firm Macquarie Private Wealth. Macquarie announced on the ASX today that ...

Investors back structured prod investments

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees and financial planning clients are snapping up structured products that provide exposure to local and Asian markets, with one provider of the products gaining more than $100 million in just 18 months. Instreet's ...

Bassanese backs Aus eqs and LPTs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Pennywise Investment, an exchange traded fund (ETF) specialist developed by economist David Bassanese, is keeping an overweight position in Australian equities and local listed property, despite some experts saying the market is overvalued. Bassanese ...