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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... for the six months to June 30 2011, from $US901 million ($A862.53 million) for the same period a year earlier. At noon the major banks were higher at noon, making up losses in early trade, with Westpac up 23 cents to $20.48. The nation's second-largest ...

Principal Global Investors UK move

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Principal Global Investors has bought a majority stake in London-based global equity specialist, Origin Asset Management, as the firm concentrates its global equity investment strategies on targeting local retail and institutional investors. The 74% ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... economic life and the national disability insurance scheme will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra last night. Shorten was speaking at a dinner to mark 20 year since ...

Investment cloud clears with Govt draft proposal

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... Government's push to pass legislation by years end. "The importance of this change cannot be underestimated - it removes a major barrier to Australian based fund managers attracting foreign investment," said John Brogden, chief executive, FSC. The consultation ...

IFM picks up $100m HOSTPLUS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... existing $30 million mandate from two years ago. Industry Funds Management (IFM), a global investment manager owned by 32 major not-for-profit Australian superannuation funds, said its strategic Australian equities process would manage the funds. Clyde ...

Resolution Capital opens US office with senior hire

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Resolution Capital has expanded its investment team with the appointment of a senior portfolio manager to be based in New York. Robert Promisel has joined Resolution Capital, a specialised manager of global real estate securities, as a global portfolio ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... stability coming into the market to a certain degree," Mr Ive said. Wall Street got off to a strong start on a series of major takeover deals, boosting European markets, after Asian markets moved ahead sharply on figures that showed the Japanese economy ...

Delaney retires amid MTAA board restructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Michael Delaney is to step down as chief executive officer of MTAA Super in November as part of a major board restructure at the fund. A successor for Delaney, who has been in charge of MTAA since its inception in 1989, will be found later this year ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... emerging markets equity mandate while IOOF has awarded the firm $200 million in global equities. This is the group's third major mandate since being licensed, receiving a $100 million Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate in April from Colonial First ...

Social media insurance wanted for share price protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... insurance solutions developed that respond to that very scenario." "In fact, there was a product released six months ago by a major global insurer that can provide an injection of capital if you can truly prove the loss of revenue linked to a particular ...