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Balmain and Allco expand factoring joint venture

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
In buying Scottish Pacific from St George Bank, BA Venture, a joint venture between commercial loan broker Balmain Commercial and Allco Finance Group, aim to bring scale to the fragmented market for debt factoring. Michael Holme, executive chairman ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
QWL has launched a fund targeting high growth in Eastern Europe, hoping to take advantage of the region's improving integration within the European Union. The QWL Euro # III Fund is being seeded with a $10 million injection and will invest into listed ...

SMSFs and mergers drive Macq property fund growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Macquarie Direct Property Fund (MDPF) today announced assets under management increased by almost 200 per cent over the past 12 months through a series of mergers and acquisitions that tipped in over $800m. The fund also experienced another successful ...

Clean, green profit machines

New figures show that clean technology companies trumped the Australian sharemarket in the performance stakes over the last financial year with one outperforming stock returning more than 1,000 per cent over the period. Based on the analysis of the ...

Rich get richer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
High global GDP growth and market capitalisation are driving ever higher numbers of high net wealth (HNW) individuals and ultra high net wealth (UNHW) individuals, according to the 11th annual World Wealth Report. The report, conducted by Capgemini ...

Investment treasure in emerging Europe: QWL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
QWL is chasing returns in emerging European countries by finding investment managers with the unique skills to operate in these regions. The multi-manager QWL New Europe Fund follows the QWLEuro Fund, which has been returning 26 per cent per annum ...

Analyse this: Dow Jones

One of the world's leading financial media houses, Dow Jones & Company has teamed up with a software provider to create a program that allows fund managers and brokers to analyse instantly and continuously how a news story can affect a company's share ...

Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

The fixed income sector is going through a fundamental "philosophical shift" as more investors demand absolute return-type fixed income strategies over traditional long-only products, said Jack Malvey, chief global fixed-income strategist at Lehman ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... retail sales outlook in April. The Hang Seng Index lost 39.24 points to end at 20,340.97,rising 131.36 points since the Easter break. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZSX-50 index was down 3.80 points to 4164.30 after a week that saw the index fluctuate.

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... bourses. The Hang Seng Index rose 101.56 points to close at 20,449.43. WELLINGTON - The sharemarket traded negatively in post-Easter trading, ignoring a strong night on Wall Street. Declines in leading stocks led to the benchmark NZSX-50 index falling ...