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HOSTPLUS $1bn mandate up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... Sicilia met with Chinese lawyers, tax professionals, regulators, investment management firms and state-owned investment houses in a bid to better understand the investment mood and economic conditions of China. The fund has ruled out directly investing ...

IMA research lag hampers investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... at Private Portfolio Managers, the US' IMA and separately managed accounts (SMA) markets are well serviced by research houses such as Morningstar, along with smaller specialist institutions such as Lockwood. But while providers in Australia such as S&P ...

Fin services execs rock on for charity

... chair at FICAP. "Normally a function will be run by a particular fund in the industry, whereas this is attended by research houses and financial planners and all the major banks and insurers." FICAP typically raises $100,000 through the event and these ...

GSJBWAM Aussie equities wins rating upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management's (GSJBW) Australian equities team continues to impress ratings houses after gaining another rating upgrade from Lonsec. Lonsec upgraded the GSJBW Australian equities portfolio from 'investment grade' to 'recommended'. ...

Clearing house model to be multi competitive: Tsy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... signals that while the government appointed Medicare as the small business clearing house, it expects multiple clearing houses to be operating in the market. "[It will] allow employers to meet their obligation to make compulsory superannuation contributions ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Fed would have it no other way. But first let's take a look at the hard data. Give thanks for Americans are again buying houses. US existing home sales jumped by 10.1 per cent in October and are now 23.5 per cent higher than they were last year. And ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... elevated, rising budget and current account deficits, municipalities raising taxes to recover falling revenues. Still too many houses for sale. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Oh btw, we may as well include Canada here. V- is for none other than the BRICs ...

Bookmakers fund closer to liquidity resolution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... developments with the view of progressing the assets for members. These include a block of three nearly completed luxury houses in Rose Bay, a partially complete office block in Pymble, and a development of 30 building blocks of land in Port Douglas. ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... 30 per cent gains," Forbes recalled. "That's exactly what's going to happen to the integrated [100 per cent] sustainable houses that are built on this single purpose...they are going to punch the lights out because everyone in the firm is committed to ...

Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... and Jane Doe for borrowing against what they -nay, everybody - thought would be a never-ending rise in the value of their houses to finance conspicuous and not so conspicuous consumption. This was no time for saving. Ahh...the good life. And now that ...