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BFG to integrate firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Southern Cross Equities and financial advisory firm Bell Potter will integrate into one brand from 1 July 2011, according to Bell Financial Group (BFG). BFG said that it would combine the two separate businesses to create a single retail, research ...

Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
A new report further supports the push for Australian fund managers' access to rapidly growing investment markets across Asia, with suggestions of APEC potentially establishing a working group on the proposal. Asia's funds management industry apparently ...

New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Investors at India Equities Fund voted against the board's proposed return of capital at last Friday's EGM, replacing them with three new directors nominated by shareholder GW Holdings. The directors of India Equities Fund previously said that if shareholders ...

Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Recent court rulings have cast doubt on millions of mortgage foreclosures across the US, potentially reducing the value of investments held by Australian institutions in related assets. Court rulings across the country have found that millions of securitized ...

Wilson HTM outsources clearing

NEW RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Penson Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd (PFSA) announced the signing of a five-year agreement to provide equities clearing services for Brisbane based broker Wilson HTM Investment Group. Deane Sweeney, Wilson HTM chief operating officer, said outsourcing ...

Jana and Frontier add to ranks

MEDIA RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
Asset consultants Frontier Investment Consulting and Jana Investment Advisers have added new staff, including specialists and consultants, to their investment teams. Frontier Investment Consulting has appointed two more analysts to its consulting team. ...

AMP adds resources to Asian equities

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
AMP Capital Investors has added a portfolio manager and a senior investment analyst to its Asian equities team. The firm appointed James Gruber as portfolio manager and Casey McLean as senior investment analyst. Gruber joins the firm from Hong Kong-based ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
They love him, they love him not. This is what the financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow ...

The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
"My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." This is the future according to Ben. Spoken like a real trooper. With these words, Big Ben appears to have calmed financial markets - equity and commodity markets rose ...

PIMCO favours Latin American and Asian bonds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
PIMCO has tilted its Global Bond Fund towards sovereign bonds in Latin America and Asia, shunning bonds from developed and emerging Europe. Peter Dorrian, head of global wealth management at PIMCO Australia, said Latin America and Asian countries, prior ...