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Templeton targets Vietnam

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... entry into the Vietnamese market in February 2008 through the acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Vietcombank Fund Management (VCBF), an investment management firm currently focused on private equity investment in Vietnam. The remaining 51 percent of ...

Islamic funds zone in on Malaysia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... Finance House (Malaysia) is optimistic about the growth prospects of the Malaysian capital market. "The KFH Group's fund management activities in the region will be consolidated through this platform," said Younis. "The new entity will structure and ...

Vanguard appoints Asia MD

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... Singapore and report directly to Vanguard Investments head of Asia and Japan, Trevor Chudleigh. Lee is an experienced fund management professional previously working for Singapore's Monetary Authority, Deutsche Bank and BGI. She recently completed a ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Financial Services Working Group (FSWG), a group of industry players that include representatives in superannuation, fund management and financial planning. "Some said four pages couldn't be done - but the Financial Services Working Group has delivered ...

Ex-TGM chief economist moves to QIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Institutional fund management giant, QIC, appointed Matthew Peter to chief economist. Prior to this appointment, Peter was director of investment strategy at specialist global macro manager, Tactical Global Management (TGM). Peter replaces the firm's ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... between paying managers for making ridiculously high returns or for protecting capital. "At the end of the day, the fund management industry needs to, over time, better align their remuneration structures with end investors. Particularly with hedge funds...the ...

Australia gets Chinese QDII status

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) scheme. The QDII scheme allows Chinese banks, insurance companies and fund management companies to invest in overseas markets. According to IFSA, the Chinese funds management industry grew by approximately ...

Future Fund to release quarterly public reports

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... amongst the poorest transparency and accountability of any sovereign fund in the world. Paul Costello, Future Fund Management Agency general manager however explained to a Senate inquiry last week that the poor level of disclosure ranking was due to ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Investment Fund and $10 billion in a new Health and Hospitals Fund. All three funds will be managed by the Future Fund Management Agency which will explode out of blocks to more than $100 billion in assets under management, propelling it to become Australia's ...

Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... billion-plus competitor in the managed funds sector by September 2008. The merged entity will include UK-based Morley Fund Management, North America's Aviva Capital Management, MFM International, Aviva Investment Canada and Aviva Gestion d'Actifs (France). ...