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Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased a stake in the alternative equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers ...

New era for investment analysts

... Callinan, head of ING-backed research firm Financial Facts; Jerome Lander, new head of international equities at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Australia; and Graeme Miller, head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt. For more information, visit ...

Investors eye emerging markets infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Credit Suisse is tapping into the growing demand for global alternative assets when it launched a product that will give Australian investors faster and cheaper access to the $1.12 trillion emerging markets infrastructure sector. Subject to regulatory ...

Passive hedge fund investing in vogue

The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Tracker Fund attracted an impressive US$5 billion of investor money in the past two years, proof that more investors want hedge fund performance but at "index" fees. "While the [tracker] fund was set up in ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

... can invest in inflation-linked bond funds such as those offered by Colonial First State (CFS), Macquarie, UBS and Credit Suisse Asset Management, all of which topped the UBS Australian Inflation 0+ years index in the year to August 31. Warren Bird, co-head ...

New alternatives offering from van Eyk

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... BGI's Global Ascent Fund; HFA's Diversifed Investments Fund hedge option; AMP's Capital Structured High Yield Fund; Credit Suisse's Asset Management Global Hybrid Income Fund; Merrill Lynch's International Gold Fund 'D' units; CSL's Active Commodities ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

It was hinted at, talked about and it finally happened this month when investment group Credit Suisse announced its decision to close down its MasterWrap product. The group unveiled its MasterWrap almost two years ago to much fanfare and great expectations. ...

Fixed interest managers now adding value: InvestorWeb

... variety of value-add techniques, including duration, credit, swap or structured products, are adding the most value. Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) was awarded InvestorWeb's highest rating and the only "strong buy", predominantly for having a ...

ORBITS now suitable for super funds

Aegis has recommended the Credit Suisse ORB Investment Traded Securities (ORBITS) suitable for superannuation funds as part of its Superannuation Investment Review (SIR). Aegis's SIR assesses structured investments and alternative investments against ...

Tasplan Super reorganises its investment manager line up

... State Street Global Advisers were also left off the fund's list of international investment managers along with Credit Suisse and Putnam. In this asset sector Tasplan has decided to retain the services of Barclays Global Investors, GMO and MLC Implemented ...