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AUI and Wingate form JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... private investment and advisory firm Wingate Group are embarking on a joint venture to form a boutique international equities fund manager. Subject to unit holder approval, the joint venture will see AUI take over the management of the Wingate Opportunity ...

Macquarie posts 23pct profit hike

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... up largely due to the sale of Macquarie-IMM Investment Management joint venture in Korea and solid performance fees in equities funds. "[Macquarie FMG] profits have been given a significant one-off enhancement through the sale of it 65 per cent interest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... Economists. In data, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry releases its quarterly Small Business Survey. In equities, Macquarie Group releases its annual results this morning, and Lion Nathan Ltd releases interim results In Melbourne, NAB chief ...

JP Morgan runs ESG checks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... Morgan executive director for compliance reporting services. Kumar said the ESG reporting service was not limited to equities and could report on ESG factors in alternative assets such as fixed income or infrastructure. "We have our own table where we ...

IFM adopts UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... portfolio because of the high allocation to alternative assets. "Much of the work around ESG to date has focussed on listed equities markets. The majority of IFM investments are in the alternative asset sectors where the investment community is not as ...

Apostle launches global small-mid cap fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... the expertise of two international small to mid cap investment managers and developed the Apostle Global Small-Mid Cap Equities fund, providing exposure to America, Europe and Asia. Half of the fund has a North American allocation, which is managed by ...

Westscheme tackles ESG with Regnan

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... screen its investment options. Westscheme currently uses a style neutral enhanced index approach to managing Australian equities, which does not explicitly take into account ESG issues in its strategy. As a result, the fund decided to take matters into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... Asia Pacific Institute and Flinders Business School, on `A comparison of the US and Australian mortgage markets'. In equities, Investec Bank Australia Ltd releasess annual results, and Bell Financial Group and Pacifica Group Ltd hold their annual general ...

US fund giant MFS lands down under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... institutional sales, Simon Gresham, joins MFS as a research analyst and will lead investment research coverage of Australian equities, among other duties. "With a strong regulatory oversight, dynamic capital markets and consistent, long-term economic ...

AMP roadmap to growth

... professionals working in Singapore, Mumbai, Tokyo and Beijing," he continued. Recently, the group won its second Chinese equities mandate on the Chinese mainland. "We are the only Australian fund manager to have such a licence," he said. The third and ...