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Lazard appoints Asia MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
Lazard Asset Management has appointed Henry Choon as managing director in business development and marketing for Asia, excluding Japan. Choon has more than 15 years experience in Asian funds management and prior to this appointment worked at Lehman ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Worldwide pension savings might have doubled in the 10 years to 2006 to US$24 trillion but retirement liabilities are estimated to be more than six times that, reveals the State Street Corporation pension industry Vision Report. This disparity illustrates ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence in the US has fallen to a five-year low, driven by unrelenting negative economic news and the impact on consumption of the perpetually falling US dollar. But institutional investor confidence is up. The consumer confidence survey ...

Aviva Investors the new force in GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Aviva is merging ten of its global asset managers under one banner, Aviva Investors, creating a new $660 billion-plus player in the managed funds sector. From September this year, the merged operation will include UK-based Morley Fund Management, North ...

Russell names IC director

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... capitalise on government fund opportunities in South East Asia. Prior to joining Russell, Franks was asset manager in North America and the UK for 25 years. Graeme Bibby, CFA, who is part of the investment consulting team in Melbourne, has been promoted ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Despite the volcanic volatility reverberating around global markets, several world wide sentiment surveys show that investor remain surprisingly upbeat. The quarterly ING Investor Sentiment Index shows that confidence level among Asian investors has ...

EM property posts Q4 boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... S&P/Citigroup Emerging Market Property Index jumped 46.2 per cent in the same period. Regionally, the S&P/Citigroup North America Property Index and European Property Index experienced fourth quarter falls of 16 and 25.7 per cent respectively, yet Asian ...

VFMC boosts inhouse investments by 25pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) chief investment officer, Leo de Bever, delivers on the strategy he outlined a year ago after the fund's allocation to external fund managers falls from 100 per cent before he joined to almost 75 per cent ...

Instos to buy more alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... Investments Survey on Alternative Investing report surveyed 326 institutions with more than A$1 billion in assets across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. Among alternative investment options, 94 per cent of Australian institutions favour real ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
India is seeking US$500 billion over the next five years to help fund its national infrastructure plan, creating a big opportunity for Australian investors to get in on the ground floor. "We need this money over the next five years to fund our plan ...