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Asset Super's strategic investment shift

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... shift to global and domestic listed property trusts and international bonds. The winners in the move are AQR Capital, Barclays, First Quadrant, Mellon, Macquarie, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and Vanguard who will manage the $124 million shift. ...

Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

... per cent return in the year ended December 2006. The top 10 index funds last year were the index products of Macquarie, Barclays, Colonial First State, State Street, AMP and Vanguard. As to whether it's time to cash in while the index is at its peak ...

Bluestone targets the smaller end of town

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... residential property loans, and Bluestone Equity Release, offering reverse mortgages. Bluestone Commercial is bankrolled by Barclays Bank. Its establishment comes on the back of research that found there was a deficiency in servicing the borrowing needs ...

BGI welcomes fixed income chief

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has appointed the former head of credit portfolio management at Westpac Bank, Sean Carmody, to the role of head of fixed income in Australia. Prior to joining BGI, Carmody was responsible for managing Westpac Institutional ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... Britain's top share index closed higher to end the week 2.2 per cent stronger. Broad bid talk boosted stocks such as Barclays, but concerns about the US economy held back gains. The FTSE 100 closed at 6152.4 points, up 20.9. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ...

Former NAB adviser gets 8 years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... Drakos convinced a number of NAB clients to invest in BSI Corp, domiciled in the Bahamas, claiming it was an affiliate of Barclays Bank. Amounts invested in BSI Corp were then transferred to a non-interest earning account in the Dominican Republic before ...

New global head of currency for SSgA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... currency analyst and head of quantitative currency research for Putnam Investments and research officer and analyst for Barclays Global Investors.

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... all the other players as the only fund manager with over US$2 trillion in assets under management. Ranked second was Barclays Global Investors with over US$1.51 trillion and a close third was Allianz Group with US$1.49 trillion. Over the past five years ...

Barclays wins S&P top prize

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has taken out the fund manager of the year award at Standard & Poor's annual awards ceremony, held in Sydney last night in association with Morningstar-owned Investor Weekly and IFA trade publications. Also picking up ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... 2,193.16. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index rallied to close at its highest level in about a month, led by banks including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. The FTSE 100 closed up 43 points to 5,949.1. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 5,876.54 points ...