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Ord Minnett appoints sales head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ord Minnett has appointed Richard Wolff as head of emerging company institutional equities sales. Wolff will focus on servicing Ord Minnett's institutional clients in the emerging company sector, including its trading and execution capabilities, company ...

DST opens China website

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
DST Global Solutions is ramping up its push into China by releasing a website dedicated to the country's clients. The website include information about the company in English in Chinese. The company already has seven offices in five Asia Pacific countries ...

PIR sold to Aegis

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Specialist research house Property Investment Research has been bought by Aegis Equities Research. According to an email that was circulated among PIR clients, Aegis plans to continue running PIR as a standalone business. However, there are "a number ...

SMAs under ratings microscope: van Eyk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Ratings and research group van Eyk is looking at developing a ratings methodology that will allow advisers to compare the range of separately managed accounts (SMAs) in the market, a small step that goes a long way in legitimising the inclusion of SMAs ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Global managed futures giant Superfund sets up an investment centre in Sydney, open to the public, to help investors understand how managed futures work. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund has grown to manage more than US$1.4 billion in assets ...

Planners gain clean tech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Asgard Wealth Solutions adds Bakers Investment Group's Alternate Energy Customised Portfolio to its Approved Product List (APL). The portfolio uses a separately managed account (SMA) structure and provides exposure to alternative energy securities across ...

Bakers portfolio rated 'investment grade'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Bakers Investment Group's Alternative Energy Customised Portfolio received an 'investment grade' rating from Aegis. Bakers Investment Group manage the model portfolio which is distributed by BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) using a separately ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Standard & Poor's is pulling out all the stops to cope with institutional demand, hiring five analysts to its local research division and creating an "out of cycle" ratings team to review new products. The ratings firm hired former Westpac Private Bank ...

AEGON takes Lehman Bros hit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
AEGON is expecting to suffer losses from its $466 million exposure to Lehman Brothers. During 2008, AEGON actively lowered its exposure to Lehman Brothers by approximately 20 per cent. By September 12, four days before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy ...

Art Trust hit by investor sentiment

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
Australian Fine Art Management has been forced to lower the minimum investment amount on The Art Trust by more than $10 million to $20 million as investor sentiment continues to fall in bad markets. Launched in May, The Art Trust adopts a unit trust ...