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Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... members. By contrast, a teeny-bopper site called 'Which Miley Cyrus song best describes you?' boasts more than 4,160 monthly active users. Type in the word 'bail-out' on Facebook's search option and you will see that the now popular finance lexicon has ...

ING offloads Taiwan life insurance for $850m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
ING sold its Taiwanese life insurance business to Fubon Financial Holding for a consideration equivalent to $850 million. The Dutch financial institutions will be paid in shares and subordinated debt securitie of Fubon Financial Holding. As a result ...

Aussie eq FMs shine in bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... over one, three, five and 10-year periods to June. The best-rated managers are being rewarded for a large percentage of active positions, the review found. Mining stocks remain the flavour of the year, with roughly 40 per cent of fund managers holding ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... investor services for our pooled funds," said Claude Lamonde, president of Optimum Asset Management. Optimum specialises in active and index portfolio management and offers ten different bond products, each with a different risk/return profile. The firm's ...

Gamers target lost super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Chasing cats and avoiding wombats all in a bid to find lost superannuation is part of AUSfund's campaign to get more people to consider finding their lost retirement savings. The fund's online game involves participants taking on a role as a dog that ...

Instreet calls on expertise for funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... funds, respectively. The ratings firm said the funds would appeal to higher risk profile investors who are comfortable with active management and product structuring.

UK fund seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... put out a tender for one or more manages to manage the $290 million mandate. Although the fund has put up a notice for an active global equity mandate, it also not averse to splitting it into a diversified growth or multi asset mandate. According to ...

DB back in vogue: Equipsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... culture of the fund. "The greater number of retired members interacting with us more regularly will increase pressure on pro-active engagement, transaction systems development and, most of all, responsiveness to changing market dynamics and demands," ...

Vision pumps $450m into Millennium Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... $17.9 billion for institutional clients across Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and now Australia. MGI employs active currency management using a distinctive fundamental discretionary investment philosophy to identify investment opportunities ...

Four funds crossed off "On Hold" list

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Four funds have been struck off Standard & Poor's "On Hold" list after reassuring the ratings house they are fully capable of executing their mandates despite ASIC's shorting ban. S&P removed its "On Hold" ratings for the Advance Global Alpha Fund ...