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SEC considers limits to private hedge funds investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
The Investment Company Institute in US has come out strongly in support of the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recommendations that individuals investing in hedge funds must have at least A$3.2 million in private investments. "This requirement ...

HESTA appoints three intl long-short managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
HESTA Super Fund has appointed Acadian Asset Management, AXA Rosenberg and AQR as global long-short managers with a total allocation of just under $300 million. The mandates represent one-tenth of their international equities strategic asset allocation ...

Statewide launches target return investment option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Top rating public offer super fund Statewide has stepped up its move into long-term strategic investments by launching a target return investment choice. The Statewide Target Return Option invests entirely in infrastructure, property, private equity ...

Government lifts deeming rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
Higher returns across investment markets and higher interest rates have pushed the Federal Government to lift deeming rates for the first time in three years. Deeming rates will increase from 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent and from 5 per cent to 5.5 per ...

FinLit Foundation launches into workplaces

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
The Financial Literacy Foundation is emerging from behind the scenes and is launching a booklet to help financial literacy in the workplace, stepping up its efforts to work with the tertiary education sector and is even launching dramatic productions ...

ML Private Clients group partners with US community bank

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
Merrill Lynch is partnering with US community bank Carver Bancorp in New York to offer investment products and financial advice directly to residents in Harlem and Brooklyn through the installation of financial booths in bank branches that will be staffed ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
It's taken two decades, but it seems superannuation is looming as an election issue, albeit a lower order one, as the Labor Party and the Government slug it out over which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer ...

DeAM launches global agribusiness fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Proving that agribusiness is about the long term and not just tax minimisation, Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has announced the launch of a global agribusiness fund. Driving the fund is the worldwide economic growth, rising income levels in the developing ...

PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The wave of private equity (PE) investment stirring political concerns in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the US, has prompted Australian academics to attempt a review of how PE investments should be regulated in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians ...

Australian M&A activity surges to record high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Australia more than doubled last year, surging 125 per cent to $35 billion, while the number of deals jumped only by one-quarter to 490, said Thomson Financial's just released Asia-Pacific M&A Financial Advisory ...