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Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... model...investors don't want their trades mingled with an investment bank's trading desk," said Nick MacDonald, co-head of Asian equities at agency broker Instinet. MacDonald said the firm has spent the last two years developing its US algorithms to ...

Media Super pushes into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2 billion Media Super is starting to feed money back into Australian equities, searching for a chief investment officer and finalising a new group insurance contract. Fresh from the merger between PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER, Ross Martin, chief ...

Future Fund hires more managers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... beneficiaries of the $59 billion Future Fund. According to its latest quarterly update, the Future Fund has appointed new Aussie equities mandates with JF Capital Partners and Perennial Growth Management. The fund has also appointed new property mandates ...

Morgan Stanley adds to Sydney business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... Wagner will manage the investment banking and capital markets divisions. Ian Chambers, head of the firm's institutional equities business, said is still looking to add more staff to the local business. He said the research division had already been expanded ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... bad - still bad but less bad. Some investors have already started moving away from cash and are placing their chips on equities. But many still remain concerned. After all, 'economists predicted nine of the last five recessions.' I wonder how many accurately ...

CORRECTION: Aberdeen takes on 30 Credit Suisse staff

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... there are certain areas within the existing Credit Suisse funds that could be improved, including their international equities products. As a result, Aberdeen is taking the management of Credit Suisse's international equities funds in-house. "We have ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... this observation, I guess I too am guilty as charged. But May 2009 holds a special, if not critical, significance for equities. Selling now risk eroding the momentum that has built up in the equity markets over the past few weeks. Remember that the adage ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... Sydney-based boutique firm Instreet Investment raised nearly twice its initial target of $20 million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates ...

Mercer adds boutique, adds staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... more staff to compete with specialist single asset class research firms. Mercer's boutique divisions cover fixed income, equities, bonds, real estate and alternative assets. "With our large client, the real competition is increasingly from specialist ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... 3,705. In economic news on Wednesday, the Housing Industry Association releases its new home sales report for March. In equities, ANZ Banking Group Ltd releases first half results. OZ Minerals Ltd publishes its March quarter production report. Babcock ...