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Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

... currency market that there were only two extreme positions during the period being the New Zealand dollar (long) and the Canadian dollar (short). "This is the lowest number of extreme positions since June 2004," said State Street. Hence it said currency ...

PIS expands footprint into Canada

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
Acting on its Canadian expansion strategy, Professional Investment Services (PIS) is set to take over a 100-planner strong Canadian financial planning group. PIS had been looking for Canadian expansion opportunities for the past 18 months before making ...

IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions, which is part-owned by the Canadian Pension Board, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, and 3i Group. IFM's share of the consortium is 19 per cent. The ...

Macquarie buys insolvent Canadian mortgage funder

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
Macquarie Bank will buy Canadian mortgage funder Cervus Financial Group Inc - currently in bankruptcy protection - for A$15 million. According Canadian media reports, Cervus has around A$1.2 billion in loans under management for a market share of less ...

ING appoints chief financial officer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2006
... which he has held for two years. Riley has over 20 years industry experience, including more than a decade in Asia with Canadian group Manulife, and has time spent with Deloittes Australia. Chief executive officer, Paul Bedbrook, said, "Ian has made ...

Canadian pensions get leg up from energy: RBC Dexia

Canadian pension plans have posted an 11.7 per cent gain in the year ending December 2005 propped by the nation's energy sector, based on the latest survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services. The London-based pension administration and global custody firm ...

Out with local, in with global managers at QIC

... have removed Fidelity and Oeschslefrom Pan-European mandates, T. Rowe Price and BGI from US mandates, BGI from a passive Canadian mandate and Goldman Sachs from a Japanese mandate. QIC's head of international equities, Gred Liddell, said the manager ...

Perpetual overhauls Select Investment international

... market timing nor does it believe in benchmarking. Meanwhile, Gryphon International Investment Corporation (GIIC), a Canadian company likes to invest in a concentrated portfolio of European and Asian-based companies. Then there is Cook Mayer Taylor which ...

Australian dollar surges after US election result

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2004
... dollar, so there has been a bit of a fire sale continuing across the board and beneficiaries have been Aussie, euro, Canadian dollar," he said. "With the re-appointment there is obviously going to be no major change to policy and under that leadership ...

MIG eyes further acquisitions as it drives value from portfolio

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2004
... $573.049 million despite the total changes in equity increasing to $6.46 billion from $6.09 billion. MIG said that its Canadian toll road 407 ETR had been involved in a series of disputes with the Ontario government but at this stage all decisions have ...