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Optimix to use local Indian know-how

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Optimix chief investment officer Emmanuel Calligeris suggests fund managers who are only entering the market now face an uphill battle compared to those who have had a few years headstart. It took two years of hard work setting up the business but ING's ...

Bell Financial Group to buy Tricom

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Bell Financial Group announced today that it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire 100 per cent of embattled futures broking firm, Tricom Group. "Should all conditions precedent be satisfied, Bell Financial Group would provide a capital infusion ...

Bullen heads MacarthurCook real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Melbourne-based boutique fund manager MacarthurCook Limited has appointed Russell Bullen to head the firm's real estate department. Bullen brings over 15 years of real estate experience in the US and Australia to MacarthurCook, including his expertise ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
Rage and accusations are now rearing their ugly heads as embattled councils attempt to recoup their losses from sub-prime backed CDO investments, but the crisis could spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon ...

High rates pose threat to direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... property remain solid, he says, and investors' appetite for unlisted property has far from waned. "As long as we keep level heads and not rush into stretching property fundamentals into doing what they're not supposed to do, I really can't see the sector ...

Diversity pays in wealth management: CBA

... market rout. Total funds under administration rose 24 per cent to $200 billion during the period. Grahame Petersen, who heads the wealth management arm, attributes the group's performance to its diversification strategy. "Once upon a time we were very ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... we gradually added resources to that area," he said. "We've got an unusual setup here at Mercer. We've got three former heads of management research from different research companies. The recently appointed Phil Graham came from Access Economics, Andrew ...

Van Eyk back on the driver's seat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... and founder of research company van Eyk Research, will become more hands on after the resignation of the group's research heads, Jerome Lander and Suzanne Tavill. While Tavill left the company last month, van Eyk has also confirmed that Lander resigned ...

Rainmaker merges with MC Marketing Concepts

... the start of the year with new joint initiatives with MC Marketing Concepts, which offers tailored programs for research heads, fund managers and planners, including the Advisers Big Day Out regional roadshow. "Financial planners need the best access ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...