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Morrison Carr triples adviser base

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Adelaide. Alexander projects Morrison Carr will improve its ranking on next year's Top 100 Licensees list "by 10 or 15 places" based on his projections for the company's adviser growth in the short term.

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... rate policy. Now wouldn't that be good? Free money to buy a discounted BMW and cheaper petrol to drive to bargain holiday places.

WW names top fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... cut, making up one per cent of the total market. Colonial First State remains the largest Australian manager rising 20 places to be ranked 108th. Other Australian groups included Macquarie Bank Group at 128, AMP at 137, National Australia Bank at 151 ...

Templeton opens SWF arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... and experience managing and advising supranational pension funds, combined with Franklin Templeton's global footprint, places in an excellent position to tap into [this market]," said Advani. He joined Fiduciary Trust in 1988 as managing director responsible ...

Macq to open next Gateway

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... Kong. In addition, the fund allows investors to gain access to six Asian share markets using a 'hindsight' strategy which places a higher weighting to the best performer at maturity. Investors also gain exposure to emerging market infrastructure via ...

Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... Telstra Super all made the top 300 list totalling $266 billion in funds under management (FUM). The Future Fund jumped 122 places in five years to be ranked 66th on the list, mostly due to Commonwealth government contributions. Graeme Miller, Watson ...

Winton fund returns 23.5pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... Macquarie Professional Series, has generated returns of 23.5 per cent for the 12 month period ending 31 July 2008. The returns places the fund yards ahead of the global equity markets 18.9 per cent average, according to the MSCI World ex-Australia unhedged ...

Africa's investment renaissance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... growth driven primarily by the soft commodity boom," said Mark Samuelson, Investec Asset Management managing director. "Places like Nigeria for example have more money than they know what to do with," he said. The numbers speak for themselves. Investec's ...

The next frontier of investing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... today in frontier markets as diverse as United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Vietnam. Also worth watching are places like Romania, Croatia and Ukraine. All are forecast to grow by over 5 per cent this year, and any of these countries could become ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... an element of artificiality about it as it's also partly about how too many people want to live in upmarket inner-city places that they can't afford. So call this an aspirational demand problem, but let's not confuse it with a social problem of lack ...