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Australians lead FM pack

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... increase, followed by the UK where managed funds grew by 19 per cent during the year. Australia's lead over its closest rival USA, increased from 18.2 per cent to 33 per cent between December 2006 and December 2007. Even allowing for a 6 per cent appreciation ...

Businesses weighed down by choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
A survey of payroll managers found 60 per cent of respondents found the choice-of-fund process frustrating and labour-intensive, costing an average business tens of thousands of dollars each year on administration spend. The joint survey conducted by ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... of years back, Credit Agricole pondered where further growth can come from, and they identified three key markets - China, USA and Australia. The organisation knows that it needs to invest in Australia and you can see that with the growth of our staff ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly is steering one of Australia's largest banking and wealth management groups to a more sustainable future when she signed the United National Global Compact (UNGC) CEO Water Mandate. The mandate is an international ...

Less clients, larger loan sizes

Margin lending is still the most popular form of gearing used by brokers for their clients and while the numbers are down, loan sizes are up. The findings came from the latest Colonial Geared Investments/Investment Trends Margin Lending: Broker Report ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... Australia. Set up in 2004, Prisma Capital Partnersas is a joint venture between a group of former Goldman Sachs partners and AEGON USA Investment Management. The former AEGON team was joined by Girish Reddy, Goldman Sachs' former co-head of equity derivatives ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... when it didn't work as planned," he said. "Our market has followed on because we are very demonstrably not decoupled from the USA, despite what people might say. "They've got a major credit problem... and we're getting some repercussions from that." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia on "Opportunities and barriers to investment in infrastructure in the USA". The Australian share market closed marginally higher on Monday, with talk the local bourse could climb as high as 5600 points ...

Rev mortgages new sales down 10pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The SEQUAL Trowbridge Deloitte Reverse Mortgage Study has revealed $466 billion worth of reverse mortgage loans were sold in Australia last year, a 10 per cent fall compared to 2006. While new sales were down, the study found that overall, the sector ...

AUI appoints head of research relationships

... Investment Group as senior consultant in investment consulting. She has also worked with Citibank in the UK and PIMCO in the USA. In her new role, she will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with retail research houses on behalf ...