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Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... suitable investment vehicle has proven to be harder. "Land consultants have been inundated with inquiries from asset managers, family offices and pension funds, [but] these have yet to translate into significant land deals," she said. Commodity exchange ...

BNY hires insto BDM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... Singapore as director, Asia Pacific, wherein he assisted sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and other large institutional asset managers to understand and manage risk in portfolios. Before RiskMetrics he worked at National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank ...

Citi and GSJBW win ESG awards

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... climate change and the impact of the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS). While this is an important area for asset managers, more research on the social factors such as governance and human capital is needed, added McCluskey. Citi Investment Research ...

Celeste FM 'better placed': Villante

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... business and they have a partner in Treasury Group that has a great deal of experience and understanding of boutique asset managers." Villante said the fund manager's name had to change after Treasury Group bought the business from Washington H Soul ...

DNR aboard HUB24 platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... provides a robust technology solution, sound business model and makes the provision of managed accounts efficient for asset managers, advisers and investors." Dalton Nicol Reid has approximately $550 million under management as at end of November 200 ...

MFS on expansion trail

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... wave of banks that have divested their wealth management arms, severely disrupting the businesses of the affected asset managers. "We picked up market share across the board - retail, onshore, offshore, insto, sub-advised mandates - and that's why we're ...

Gulf wealth to engulf stockmarkets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... "For example, GCC governments have effectively outsourced the management of their external assets to banks and asset managers in traditional financial centres. Yet the financial crisis has undermined the basis and credibility of this practice," he said. ...

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... overall investment strategies - but many appear to have lost faith in their relatively small lists of external asset managers, according to new research by Greenwich Associates. In terms of raw size, Asia's institutional asset base is huge: at more than ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... a company. "Cost ratios have become fundamental in distinguishing winners from losers across the full range of asset managers, driving the size of assets under management as well as the profitability of the firms that manage them," said Walter. "This ...

Treasury buys stake in two boutiques

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... looking for - experience and a good track record. "We met with a lot of people and many are trying to start-up asset managers for the first time. We think it's a difficult time to do that so we've gone for track records, experience and boutiques where ...