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Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... began in December 2007." A story about a no-story if you ask me. Like eagerly raising your hands after the teacher asks the class a question, standing up when called... and with a loud voice answer, "I don't know"! Just last week, Robert Hall, head of ...

PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Professional Investment Services is staging an ambitious plan to become an all-round financial services outfit, providing products and services that have long been the domain of the big banks, including the all-important area of bank deposit products. ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is steadily making changes to its structure to keep pace with its overseas counterparts, and the results are promising. Late last month, NSE chief executive Peter Mwangi, spoke at an industry forum about the progress ...

Future Fund on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... supporting the strategy process. Included in the job description are duties around developing and maintaining economic and asset class models to be used as part of the portfolio construction process for the fund. The investment analyst in the strategy ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... international investors and gained an investment mandate from an Irish institution. "[Global property] was the darling asset class in 2006, the big pension funds started allocating to global property back then," he said. "That slowed down during the ...

Babson Capital targets growth in Oz

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
US-based Babson Capital Management, which bought a $200 million Babcock & Brown mezzanine debt portfolio, has hired two AMP Capital Investors executives in Australia with plans to turn its local arm into a multi-billion dollar operation in the next ...

Van Eyk head of research resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... today that Douglas has been appointed senior manager investment research, with responsibility for all managed fund and asset class research. Douglas' resignation comes after former managing director and head of research, Stephen van Eyk, left the firm ...

Credit Suisse wins Mercer mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... strategies, Niklaus Hilti, said the firm had formed this partnership with Mercer's multi-manager funds in the specialised asset class. Hilti called ILS investments "alternatives" to traditional and non-traditional investments. "This is also a new asset ...

AMP Cap invests in clean tech private equity

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
AMP Capital Investors' Responsible Investment Leaders suite of funds have made an allocation to clean technology private equity assets through its balanced fund. The allocation has been made through a US-based clean tech private equity firm. "[This] ...

Select looks to sign on six dealer groups

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
Select Asset Management is in talks with six dealer groups looking to use the firm's Customised Portfolio Solutions (CPS). Andrew Fairweather, chief executive of Select Asset Management, said the firm had around six to seven dealer groups in the discussion ...