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AMP awards $43m mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors has awarded a $43.5 million mandate to Man Investment's part-owned manager, Nephila Capital. Nephila Capital is an alternative investment manager specialising in catastrophe reinsurance. The firm invests across the range of insurance-linked ...

J.P. Morgan extends protection to retirees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
Pre-retirees take heart - a global asset manager is looking to implement a new strategy that allows Australian investors to have 80 per cent protection of the highest value of their investments as risk aversion continues to sweep the market. According ...

India markets up 18pc on election

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Indian funds could receive renewed investor interest after the country's equity markets rose around 18 per cent following the latest election results. India's democratic elections, which includes more than 700 million voters across 26 states, resulted ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

Salisbury beats FP recruitment targets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
The Salisbury Group is on target to exceed the dealer group's recruitment target of 16 financial advisers for the financial year. The boutique dealer group recruited 15 financial advisers since the beginning of the financial year, four of those since ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
London-based fund of hedge fund manager Liongate Capital Management has won over $1 billion in mandates since the start of the GFC - and the firm is now seeking new wins in the Aussie institutional market. While most fund of hedge fund managers suffer ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Phew! That wasn't stressing at all. In the end, the official announcement of the results of the stress test conducted on 19 of America's biggest banks became a sort of anti-climax for the equity markets. Where to from here? The verdict? Ten of the 19 ...

Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Homegrown technology firm Praemium Limited finalised the development of its flagship products tailored to the British market but was forced to cut overheads following the UK recession. The technology firm told the ASX this week that it has reduced its ...

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Institutional investors are gaining the upper hand in securing the best direct property deals as the "government guarantee" chokes retail fund inflows into the $60 billion direct property market. Nearly half of 100 direct property fund managers said ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
It'll be another case of "will they, won't they" today as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its regular monthly Board meeting. Will they, won't they? The RBA lowered the country's official cash rate to an even 3 per cent last month. This represented ...