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Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... Contagion here we come...again. But Cameron's "gamble" might do more harm to Britain than to other economies, Continental Europe especially. This fresh uncertainty could prompt UK companies to further defer investment plans until it's resolved - that's ...

Ugly jobs decline rattles financial services

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... reported decreases of 5% and 23% respectively. While finance jobs in the US (18%) and the UK (24%) were down, continental Europe experienced a decline of 28%. However, it's not all doom and gloom said, George McFerran, managing director Asia-Pacific ...

Manager tenure impacts success: S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... funds. Of these, 17 were individuals based in Australia, three in the US, two in the UK, and one from both Continental Europe and Asia. S&P identified a number of key reasons for manager departure including evolution of ownership structures such as new ...

UBS adds gas to global infra fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... infrastructure and private equity. Gassled's transmission system runs from fields on the Norwegian continental shelf to continental Europe and the UK. The US$1.5 billion UBS International Infrastructure Fund is managed by UBS Global Asset Management ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... going away. Reuters' monthly asset allocation poll - a "survey of leading investors in US, Britain, Japan and Continental Europe" - showed investors not waiting for May to come, they started packing in April. The survey showed investors reduced their ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... the Future Fund, AustralianSuper and State Super among the world's top 100. While managers from the US and continental Europe dominate the top 500, countries with smaller economies, and smaller investment markets than ours, including South Africa, Denmark ...

Aviva takes over Henderson property fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
Aviva Investors will manage the Henderson International Property Fund portfolio, which includes Australian assets, after being named investment manager and authorised corporate director of the fund. The arrangements kick in 2 August. In a press statement ...

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... asset base is huge: at more than US$5 trillion, Asian assets actually exceed those held by institutions in continental Europe. Unlike continental Europe, however, the vast bulk of assets in Asia - approximately 87 per cent - is managed internally by ...

Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... 2007-2009. This amounts to a hefty $12 billion of its fund's total $594 billion. Other big pension investors in Continental Europe include the Danish ATP and PKA, Dutch PGGM, Finnish VER. The majority of pension fund investments are through infrastructure ...

Europe pension assets on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
European pension assets have been battered by the bear market but the sector still managed to spurt a decent 5.7 per growth - bringing total assets to $6.4 trillion. According to the latest annual IPE Top 1000 Pension Funds supplement, which assesses ...