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Future Fund seeks hedge fund analyst

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The $63 billion government-backed Future Fund is ramping up its attention to the hedge fund space as it embarks on a hunt for a senior analyst with an expertise in hedge funds. The Future Fund is seeking the analyst to "help build one of Australia's ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Northern Trust has been granted an Australian banking licence, allowing it to provide banking transaction services and broader custody and asset services to its local clients. The licence means Australian based Northern Trust clients such as the federal ...

Good news at last for AIG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
At last some good news for AIG Life Australia with the company announcing a major upgrade of their insurance suite while also coming runner-up in the CoreData Life Company of the Year awards. The firm's Priority Protection insurance suite is receiving ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

Make or break for PE managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Private equity managers will have to front up more of their own capital to finance new deals as funding in leveraged buy-outs dry up, according to a Watson Wyatt report. The Watson Wyatt report found deal volumes in leveraged buy outs (LBOs) fell by ...

Don't fire marketers: Business Health

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Financial planning practices owners could be financially worse off in the future if they decide to lay off marketing staff in a bid to cut costs. Terry Bell, Business Health partner, said often the first cost cutting measures involve laying off marketing ...

Planners still optimistic: MLC

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Bad markets? Tick. Shaky economic times? Tick. Planners' business growth? Tick. Despite the market downturn, 43 per cent of financial planning business owners are confident their business will grow by more 25 per cent per year in the next five years ...

Top guns tackle industry challenges

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
They don't have the answer for world peace but five young investment professionals were lauded this week for their papers that offer solutions to the challenges that have long confounded the investment industry. Renee Knapp, a senior claims consultant ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open strongly today after Wall Street experienced its second-largest point gain on record and Asian markets also surged. At 0800 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

BT reaps $1.7bn in net inflows

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
BT Investment Management has defied the finance sector's downturn by achieving a credible $1.7 billion in net inflows from institutional and wholesale clients for the year ended September 2008. BT's funds under management averaged $38.5 billion over ...