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Franklin Templeton acquires Balanced Equity, plans new fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
Franklin Templeton Investments has agreed to acquire Australian equities manager Balanced Equity Management and plans to launch a new fund available to retail and institutional investors. The deal transforms Franklin Templeton Australia from a $7bn ...

Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... ETF investors and index-tracking funds would all be affected. Kerry Series, chief investment officer of boutique Asian equities manager Eight Investment Partners which manages $270 million, said he hopes the rebalancing occurs. Series said more money ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... index futures contract was 14 points higher at 4,493, with 18,214 contracts traded. RBS Morgans Brisbane director of equities Bill Chatterton said investors appeared to be moving their focus away from negative global factors, such as Europe's debt woes ...

Advance Asian equity fund on hold as personnel changes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... hold' after a spate of departures from its manager, Lion Global Investors (LGI). Janet Liem, LGI's head of Asia-pacific equities team has left the company, as has Tan Jenn Yee, portfolio manager of the Asian Equity Wholesale Fund. According to S&P, that ...

AMP wins $113m new mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser report, there was $246.4 billion worth of funds under management invested in international equities in the December quarter last year. This was only beaten by the $372.8 billion that was allocated to Australian equities, the ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... growth forecasts for the continent. According to S&P, the Access Africa index is made up of the largest and most liquid equities issued by companies that operate purely in Africa or derive over 50 per cent of their revenues from the continent. "Rising ...

Zenith adds senior investment analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
Zenith Investment Partners adds former Future Fund equities head to its fold as part of its new appointments as the group plans further expansion. Bronwen Moncrieff has joined Zenith as senior investment analyst within the asset class research team ...

Super the nation's best money aggregator

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... manager of both infrastructure and private equity. But they are also Australia's eleventh biggest manager of Australian equities.

Russell appoints director amid consulting expansion

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... their pool of intellectual property." Dr Lander, who will be based in Sydney, has previously been head of international equities and diversified assets at Credit Suisse Asset Management and head of research at van Eyk. "Dr Lander has experience as both ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... price index futures contract was 8 points lower at 4,578 points, with 34,169 contracts traded. Intersuisse director of equities Andrew Sekely said the local market had risen on Tuesday after promising economic data out of China but had fallen on Wednesday ...