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Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... 1999, offering a variety of Sharia'a compliant products across private equity, venture capital, asset management and development infrastructure. Over the past decade GFH has successfully launched initiatives with an aggregate value exceeding US$30 billion. ...

NY fund invests $200m in climate change

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... technology companies globally. This covers firms that derive at least 50 per cent of their core business through the development and deployment of environmental technologies, water technology, alternative energy and pollution control. "Climate change ...

Suncorp and CMC sign share trading deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... with CMC Markets to provide online share trading to its 13,500 customers. Tim Buckett, general manager of customer development at Suncorp Bank, said the bank selected the online share trading firm because of the tools and education resources. The bank ...

SMSFs targeted in $428k swindle

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... four years and two months jail with a non-parole period of two and a half years. White was a director at PFS Business Development Group, a company that set up SMSFs for clients. During the process of setting up an account, which he strongly encouraged ...

Bassanese opens ETF consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... markets. A former federal treasury official and economic consultant at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), he also has a first class honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide and a Masters in Public Policy ...

Planner appetite for fixed income soar

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... planners' appetite for FI investments are still on an upward trajectory. Stephen Nash, head of strategy and market development at FIIG Securities, said planners are keeping their eyes on index-linked bonds, in particular. "Many planners are waiting for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... billion Gorgon LNG project, after PetroChina agreed to buy $50 billion of liquefied natural gas from the vast proposed development in Western Australia. BHP Billiton was nine cents higher at $37.35, while Rio Tinto was up $1.45 or 2.55 per cent at $58.35. ...

HSBC wins AMP Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... inflation-linked bonds forms part of our long-term strategic asset allocations changes and are part of the ongoing development and diversification of the range. "Inflation-linked bonds will be included as a component of the fixed interest asset class ...

Bell Direct appoints head of BD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Bell Direct has appointed Angela Hayward as head of business development. Hayward's primary responsibility will be to develop the online wholesale broking business, Desktop Broker, within the financial intermediary sector. Hayward has over 18 years ...

Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... collapsed in January 2006 with losses of more than $300 million. The Group promoted investments in a number of property development projects, including 10 projects using unsecured mezzanine finance (a form of fund raising that covers the difference between ...