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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... gold reached record prices overnight, encouraging investors to buy resource stocks. The Australian market followed US equities, which advanced overnight also after credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said write-downs in financial institutions had ...

Suncorp/Tyndall shifts to enhanced indexing

Just more than three months after Suncorp/Tyndall's Australian equities team left to set up a boutique, the group has signed up Russell's transition management team to run its $3 billion-plus equities portfolio under a new enhanced indexing model. Managing ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... traditional and alternative asset classes. These strategies will invest across a combination of asset classes, including equities, property, high-yield bonds, commodities and infrastructure. They will also include exposure to synthetic hedge funds through ...

Liquidnet rakes $200m off starting blocks

Liquidnet, the global agency broker that's just launched in Australia, has said members have traded $200 million in equities using the group's block matching system. The group allows institutional investors to trade large blocks of equities directly ...

BUSSQ grants $50m to T.Rowe Price

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Queensland building and construction super fund, BUSSQ has awarded a $50 million international equities mandate to T.Rowe Price. David Sullivan, BUSSQ chief executive, said T.Rowe Price replaced Nicholas Applegate after concerns of manager turnover. ...

New Asia Pac equities head for AMP Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Kerry Series as the firm's new head of Asia Pacific Equities. Series was previously investment director Asian equities at HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong. Prior to that he was co-founder of Perennial Investment ...

Optimix to use local Indian know-how

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... Investment Management, both of which already have a base in the region. Calligeris said Optimix had been using a local Indian equities manager to pick stocks for the company's Global Emerging Market fund for more than a year. "In India it's more about ...

Pengana buys Saltbush

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... of 17.5 per cent net between May 2004 and January 2008." The Saltbush Absolute Return Fund is a long short Australian equities fund that began trading in May 2004. The fund uses a bottom up approach to stock selection targeting 20 to 30 long and 10 to ...

Aberdeen promotes Bovingdon to CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... income at Aberdeen Asset Management in June last year after the firm purchased Deutsche Asset Management's Australian equities and fixed income businesses. He remains head of fixed income at Aberdeen Asset Management inline with the firm's management ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... said. Analysts said the figure had already been factored into a very volatile share market. ABN AMRO Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the market was significantly stronger. "The market is having at the moment bouts of bouncing back lead ...