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RREEF buys long short real estate stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Deutsche bank's RREEF Alternative Investments bought a minority stake in US based long short real estate investment advisor, Rosen Real Estate Securities LLC. The deal means RREEF investors gain access to Rosen Real Estate Securities' products while ...

GMO eyes US and global equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... to moderately cheap for the first time in at least 20 years. "At under 1000 on the S&P 500, US stocks are very reasonable buys for brave value managers willing to be early. The same applies to EAFE and emerging equities at October 10th prices, but even ...

All not lost for LPTs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... both experts agree an overdue correction in the asset pricing within the LPT sector would mean that there would be cheap buys in the market - and when the turnaround occurs, the sector will begin its climb back to credibility. "Our analysis shows that ...

ARCH buys FPG stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
US asset manager ARCH Financial Products has bought a 48 per cent stake in one of the world's largest offshore independent financial adviser firms, Financial Partners Group. ARCH bought the stake in FP Group, which has more than $1.3 billion under advice ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... attractive." The fund seeks to outperform the S&P GSCI Commodity Total Return Index which is hedged into Australian dollars and buys futures to gain commodity exposure. "Using a futures-based strategy gives us the flexibility to attempt to roll each ...

CBA buys BankWest and St Andrews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has purchased BankWest and St Andrew's Australia for $2.1 billion. Commonwealth Bank is determined to keep its strong capital position and intends to fund the purchase price by undertaking a $2 billion accelerated ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
TOWER Australia ramps up its market share in the direct-to-market life insurance sector after it acquired InsuranceLine, one of the largest direct distributor of life insurance products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million ...

Japan bank buys $11bn of Morgan Stanley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) bought more than $11 billion in Morgan Stanley equity for a 21 per cent interest in the company, a deal that forms an alliance between the two firms to pursue corporate and investment banking opportunities. The ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... its normal cycle, other economies follow. The world is a better place. Negative Scenario: The Exchange Stabilisation Fund buys out all the bad debts from banks' balance sheet to the tune of US$1 trillion, enabling banks to resume lending. However, banks ...