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HSBC wins Ascalon mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
HSBC Securities Services has won a mandate from Ascalon Capital Managers to provide custody and fund administration to the Ascalon platform. HSBC will become Ascalon's sole securities services provider in Australia. Ascalon will get access to HSBC's ...

NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Australian fund managers looking for mandates from the $16.4 billion NZ Super Fund may soon have to display how they input environmental, social and governance factors in their strategies as the fund pushes ESG considerations higher on its priority ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
The Australian share market was half a per cent stronger at noon, with higher prices for base metals and a new record gold price buoying resources stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 24.3 points, or 0.53 per cent, at 4,650.8 at 1208 AEST ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
The Australian share market had held onto early gains at noon, led by financial and resources stocks, following positive offshore leads and better-than-expected results from a domestic business confidence survey. At 1206 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Three cheers for September! Hip, hip! Where's the September curse everybody and his dog were warning about at the onset of the seventh moon of the year? Thirteen days into this "most awful month" for stocks and so far Wall Street has advanced in eight ...

Mistaken identity on term deposits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Financial planners need greater education on term deposits according to research - but the chair of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) questions some of the research assumptions and said planners are already 'well trained' in the correct use of ...

RFM adds two to distribution team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Agricultural fund Rural Funds Management (RFM) has appointed a new national sales manager and business development officer. James Powell rejoins RFM after working previously with them as a business development manager from July 2006 through to July ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Strong economic data from China boosted resources stocks on the Australian share market, which was firmly higher at noon. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 50.6 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 4,610.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Monday in the wake of gains on United States markets and strong Chinese economic data released over the weekend. On Friday, Wall Street lifted as a better-than-expected wholesale inventory report ...

AMP buys $80m social infra fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
AMP Capital Investors has announced the acquisition of the RBS Social Infrastructure Trust, an Australian public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure fund with an $80 million portfolio of assets. The fund will be renamed the AMP Capital Community ...