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Future Fund ex-strategy chief opens Scarce Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Tony Day, the former head of strategy at the Future Fund, has set up Scarce Capital, a new advisory services business that aims to help investors who want more than just a run-of-the-mill approach in global asset allocation and strategy. Day said the ...

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 ...

The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
The call of the boutique fund has proved irresistible for many investment professionals, but ratings can still be retained in the face of departures, according to a new study. In its third quarterly Musical Chairs report, S&P fund services found that ...

Net tightens around share trading: ASIC

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The financial services watchdog, which yesterday released a consultation package on a new regulatory framework for the shares market, said it is "well-prepared" to start regulating multi-market activity, while boosting competition in equity exchange ...

Westfield announces restructuring, to launch new A-REIT

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Westfield announced plans this morning to spin a significant proportion of its local assets into the new Westfield Retail Trust, which it expects will be one of the three largest real estate investment trusts (REIT) in the Australian market. The new ...

Global Capital Investment launch Iraq Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Global Capital Investments will invest in listed equities on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) through its newly-launched Iraq Fund. The fund will allocate up to 20 per cent of its assets in private, less liquid, early-stage investment opportunities in ...

Swan weighs in on currencies, promotes reform agenda

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Speaking at the New York Stock exchange overnight, Treasurer Wayne Swan reaffirmed his commitment to growing the national retirement savings pool and weighed in on the currency wars that are threatening to envelop global capital markets. "If the global ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
In a further sign of the fragile state of the US economy, one of the biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed ...

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 ...

Aviva appoints senior roles in Asia Pacific

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Aviva plans to develop and launch a number of new products to further expand its global real estate in the Asia Pacific with the three appointments fundamental to this action. "These products will be designed with the needs of the local Asia Pacific ...