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ING names new sales & marketing FM head

... of fund manager selection and review, model portfolio construction and asset allocation. Besides working with research houses, external platforms and dealer group researchers, Wadhera will also manage a team of funds management business development managers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... cent. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei edged up 0.2 per cent, with oil's surge towards $120 a barrel boosting Nippon Oil and trading houses that deal in the increasingly pricey fuel. The Nikkei gained 31.34 points to close at 13,579.16. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... - Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.18 per cent to a five-week closing high as higher oil and metals prices boosted trading houses such as Mitsui and other resource firms. The Nikkei added 157.01 points to 13,450.23, its highest close since February 29. ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... Plibersek, the Commonwealth minister for housing, said on Sky News this morning, "We have to be realistic about the type of houses people will have. Not everyone will have a $5 million home." Meanwhile the IMF has released a report arguing that Australian ...

CalPERS calls for ratings overhaul

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... The US' largest pension fund, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), has backed efforts to push rating houses Fitch, Moody's and Standard & Poor's to reform their methods for rating government-issued bonds. According to a statement ...

Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... called for trustees to have a clear direction of their fund's management strategies, and said it was then up to rating houses to help bring that message across to members. "It's not our job to tell you how to run your funds," said Dunnin. "Work out what ...

AUI appoints head of research relationships

... PIMCO in the USA. In her new role, she will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with retail research houses on behalf of AUI and its joint venture partners, Acorn Capital, Platypus Asset Management and Vianova Asset Management. ...

Pinnacle appoints distrib exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... manager. In this position, Chambers will be based in Melbourne and build relationships with asset consultants, research houses and major investment clients for the group's boutique firms. The firm is expected to appoint another executive to a similar ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... reprice lending, there is a real risk banks will ultimately be limited in the amount we are able to lend customers to buy houses or to expand their businesses. "We saw this earlier [last] week when Macquarie became the first prime lender to say it would ...

GVI shifts retail weight to insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... traditional yardsticks, such as dividends. The snag is that the fund is still in the process of getting ratings from research houses. "Ideally we want to have our ratings completed by 2009 fiscal year. We're already half way through the process with ...