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Future Fund investment team expands

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... previously spent seven years in Project Finance with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Sarah Carne will take up the position of manager, equities of the fund in May and will be working with Elspeth Lumsden, Head of Equities. Carne joins the Fund from Frontier ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... At 0701 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was up 12 points to 5,401. In equities today, David Jones Ltd releases its interim results. The Asia Pacific Technology Exchange will launch today in Sydney. The ...

Schroders buys Swiss Re

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... February. According to a statement released by Schroders, the business being acquired manages six funds focused on European equities, capital protected products, global balanced and property. Key employees will transfer to Schroders on completion of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... Thursday. At 0738 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was at 5,190 points. In equities today, Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd releases its annual results. On Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 161.6 points ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... manager skill. The remaining 85 per cent could be attributed to a equity risk premium of market returns that included equities, credit, bond market duration and market volatility. He said State Street Global Advisers had received a strong amount of interest ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... Tolhurst, opted to re-sign with its previous IT provider, GBST. In April last year, Tolhurst said it would change its equities administration system from GBST to SecuritEase. But by last month, the broker announced it won't use SecuritEase and instead ...

Douglas to head van Eyk investment research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... Stephen van Eyk. Douglas has been van Eyk's investment strategist since 2004 and has led manager reviews of Australian equities, hybrids, structured credit, global infrastructure equities and fixed interest. Prior to van Eyk, Douglas was chief economist ...

MTAA awards $450m quant mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... Super has awarded a $450 million mandate to BlackRock Investment Management to run a quantitative, tax-aware Australian equities portfolio. Maurice O'Shannassy, BlackRock managing director, said a tax-conscious portfolio could make a substantial difference ...

Double digit days are over

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... make investors less certain about true bond rates, real rates of return and the level of risk premiums demanded from equities. "Because we forecast with less certainty we're likely to expect lower returns, and volatility will be higher," said Sainsbury. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... lower at 5083. Reynolds & Co director Markus Mueller said shares were falling on bad news, including Friday's slump in US equities and the Fed's cut in the discount rate. "There's not much positive news around and there's an enormous amount of bad news ...