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Charter Hall closes retail fund oversubscribed

More than 40 financial planning groups have signed up to the first retail offering of Charter Hall Group, a listed property funds and development company that started life managing wholesale capital only. The group's Umbrella fund raised a total of ...

ING Australia buys FSP Group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
ING Australia becomes the third largest planning group in the country when it bought the FSP Group, adding a 145-adviser network with over $2.5 billion FUA to the fold in one swoop. The group sidesteps the industry's long-running problem on skills shortage ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
High oil prices and a shrinking US dollar signal an economic perfect storm looming on the horizon, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Simon Johnson, IMF chief economist told ABC TV's Business Lateline program last night that the credit crisis ...

Liontamer lends weight to blue gold

Is water really an increasingly scarce commodity? Investment group Liontamer predicts that the shortage of fresh water in the future will drive the investment returns of listed companies that specialise in the 'blue gold' sector. Liontamer, majority ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

Praemium wins UK platform deal

Homegrown finance technology group Praemium marks a turning point in its foray to the UK after signing up Cofunds, one of the largest platforms in the region with over $35 billion in assets under administration. The contract follows the UK Government's ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

ASX companies lag on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
A Reputex report has revealed four out of five Australian listed companies are risking their profit-generating potential by not adopting climate change policies. Using a scale from -1, representing the lowest score and +1, the highest possible score ...

Resources boom gone in three years: Putnam

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
New transport and resources infrastructure arriving in the next three to four years could lead to the end of the current global resources boom, according to Shigeki Makino, Putnam Investments chief investment officer of global core equities. He said ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
While US and European banks take an 'open-Kimono position' towards sub-prime losses, it's leaving Godzilla sized footprints on Japan's financial sector, crushing the $320 billion Mizuho merger and derailing a share-swap between Citigroup and Nikko Cordial. ...