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IOOF and AWM merger set to go

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... merger proposal last November which at that time would have seen both companies unite to become a $88 billion fund management giant.

RBC Dexia bids faxes goodbye

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... "The benefits automation brings in terms of efficiency, cost and risk management make its adoption a priority for fund management in Australia," he said. In addition, the company plans to add SWIFT capability to its local custody operations so that it ...

Sovereign adds two principals

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... at Bankers Trust Australia he worked across derivatives markets and spent several years as a member of the BT Fund Management's Investment Committee assessing alternative investments and risk management. Peterson then took a role as head of investment ...

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... investors to place more investments into ETFs in the past year. According to the Investment Company Institute, the US fund management industry's representative body, American investors invested nearly US$200 billion into ETFs in 2008. Over the same period ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... for fund managers with a stable ownership base at a time when major banks are divesting or restructuring their fund management businesses while at the other end of the spectrum, investment boutiques face dwindling revenues. "Martin Currie is majority ...

Power to the people: Hermes

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
Shareholder empowerment and better governance will mark the dawning of a new era in super fund management when the GFC passes, according to Hermes Equity Ownership Services. Colin Melvin, chief executive of the world renowned Hermes Equity Ownership ...

UniSuper wins Investment Stewardship award

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... new single-asset class options. The fund was the 2009 winner of the Super Fund Category. The winner of the 2009 Fund Management Category of the ISA with a commendation for their integration of the UNPRI is Lend Lease Management. Last year, Cbus won the ...

Australia faces financial hub contender

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... becoming Asia's financial hub. The Singaporean government is expected to add a new "enhanced tier" to the existing fund management incentives for certain funds, and lift restrictions on the residency status of the fund vehicles or investors, law firm ...

Sun Hung Kai targets distressed financial firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... "professional investors" and is not available locally, was developed after the group's asset management division, SHK Fund Management found the global financial sector is littered with long term investment "diamonds". The recovery fund is targeting undercapitalised ...

Full steam ahead for Aberdeen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... S&P placing 29 Credit Suisse funds "on hold". Aberdeen said last month that it would buy certain Credit Suisse fund management assets and business of its Global Investors division. Following the announcement, ratings house Standard & Poor's placed 29 ...