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Macquarie buys Delaware Investments

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... entered into an agreement to buy Delaware Investments for $516 million - a move that deepens Macquarie's footprint in North America and adds a further $150 billion into its assets under management. Philadelphia-based Delaware currently has over $150 ...

Russell property fund goes global

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... portfolio of global real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other publicly traded real estate companies located in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Russell Investments has also extended AEW's mandate from a local to a global strategy. ...

Alpha selects Pengana volatility strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Alpha Fund Managers has added the Pengana Global Volatility strategy to its multi-manager line-up. The market neutral strategy invests in exchange traded North American future and options. "The consistency of returns since the strategy began and having ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Many Australian and New Zealand signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) are lagging behind their overseas counterparts on implementing the principles, according to a progress report. The UN PRI Report on Progress ...

Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... deal would expand the firm's global footprint. Towers Watson will operate in four geographic locations including North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific and Latin America. The firm will focus on three segments; benefits, talent ...

Northern Trust targets EMEA pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... their increasingly sophisticated requirements." The firm's office spans across 15 different locations including North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Local S&P veteran heads to global stage

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... separate European and Australian fund research businesses, and beyond that, expand into new markets such as Asia and North America in order to create a global business covering fund ratings, research and wealth management services.

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
In a weekend interview on ABC Television, US National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said "We'll see what happens" and "We'll do what's necessary." This is one of the reasons why I've turned. For once, I believe the powers that be. There ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... small businesses and ordinary workers have not escaped the deep freeze. I will spare you last night's news out of North America, Europe and Asia. They are more of the same. Gloom and Doom - more job losses, more houses repossessed, more businesses shuttered ...

Trustee survey reveals top asset classes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... Overseas, institutional investor appetite for infrastructure remains robust with RARE picking up "a few clients" from North America since April last year. For Gabriel Szondy, managing director of CIE, it's not surprising that infrastructure topped the ...