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Public equity under pressure

"The issue is not private equity but what's wrong with public equity," said Future Fund chairman, David Murray, as the debate heats up over the long-term impact of private equity takeovers on the publicly listed companies sector. Commenting on the round ...

Unionised workers only half all industry fund members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
New research shows that industry funds are winning post-super choice, despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the proportion of private sector workers belonging to a union is only 15 per cent. According to the ABS, less than ...

IXIS revises and renames bond fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
IXIS Asset Management Australia has revised its IXIS Sayles Global Corporate Bond Fund broadening its investment mandate and rebranding it with a new name. The fund will now be know as the IXIS Loomis Sayles Global Bond Fund. It has been revised for ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
QIC has switched its long-only mandate with quantitative investment specialist AQR into a new long-short allocation, seeding AQR's new Released Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 ...

Japanese property a hit with Aussie investors

The Macquarie Global Property Japan Core Plus Fund closed over-subscribed by more than $390 million (US$300 million) with 25 per cent of the total $1.12 billion (US$865 million) capital raising coming from five Australian super funds alone. The MGP ...

The manager matters in private equity: Unigestion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
With all the noise around private equity, many institutional investors are all ears for how they can jump aboard the PE freight train. European buyout specialist Unigestion has highlighted some of the distinct opportunity sets for Australian investors ...

Insurance brands to stand in Promina and Suncorp merger

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
The house of brands approach used by Suncorp and Promina will remain in place following the merger of the two, but with some refinement. Suncorp uses the Suncorp brand in banking and wealth management, and the GIO brand in insurance. Promina has a host ...

Hedge funds set to splurge on IT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
In the past the hedge funds sector has not proven fertile ground for IT providers, but a new report suggests all that is about to change with the sector's IT investment set to grow to $3.3 billion by 2009. A new report from Datamonitor, Securities Processing ...

Financial mentor to be wound up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
A Brisbane financial mentoring operation will be wound up after The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) obtained court orders to proceed with liquidation. The Supreme Court of Queensland also ruled that director Andrew Carr had carried ...

BT appoints former MLIM exec as head of credit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
BT Financial Group has welcomed a former Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) executive as the new head of credit for BT Investment Management. John Sorrell will take on the key role with a focus on leading BT's credit research and credit management ...