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October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... interpretation of economic reports, government announcements and central bank decisions determined entry and exit into equities, currencies, bonds and commodities - and this was changing by the day. Wall Street fell after the US Federal Reserve brought ...

Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... said. But Ibbetson said that while they are fishing for bargains in the credit market, they don't intend to get into the equities market in a big way just yet. "We think there's still a lot of leverage in the [equities] sector." The new company will ...

AustSuper seeks equities and FI experts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... industry fund Australian Super is on the hunt for two investment specialists with expertise in fixed interest and listed equities. Australian Super is looking to appoint an investment manager - fixed interest to drive the fund's fixed interest investment ...

Northward wins Golden Calf

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... Calf Award for the best emerging fund manager. The firm was set up by former Insurance Australia Group (IAG) co-heads of equities, Darren Thompson and Simon Rutherfurd in November last year. The Northward Australian Equities process achieved top quartile ...

GSJBW team heads up boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Three ex-Goldman Sachs JB Were Aussie equities experts are joining forces in a new nabInvest-backed boutique venture, Fairview Equity Partners. Fairview is an Australian equities small caps boutique investment manager that is majority owned by its investment ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... that the Fed has lowered interest rates - making equity market valuation even more attractive and credit even easier - equities sold off? In a unanimous decision, the US Federal Reserve's policy-making board, the Federal Open Markets Committee, voted ...

Essex County seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Aussie fund managers with a global equities expertise may apply for a slice of the $7.7 billion Essex County Council Pension Fund's $763 million global equities mandate. According to a public tender statement, the pension fund is looking to appoint ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... because investors are worried about the global recession. The fact is both explanations are valid. Liquidity is loosening, equities are cheap and a global recession is in our midst. And these are exactly the same reasons causing the wild swings in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... share price index futures contract was 43 points lower at 3,748 on a volume of 16,561 contracts. Intersuisse director of equities, Andrew Sekely, said financials were leading the way down. "With the miners up, obviously something had to be down and there ...

BT reaps $1.7bn in net inflows

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... and mandate shuffles. "I think [instos are] moving away from other managers or other asset classes, particularly into equities and property. "We've seen, across the year, some substantial mandates from our institutional clients," said Morris. Despite ...