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RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... said Greg Medcraft, chief executive of the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF). Medcraft said confidence among institutional lenders, being the groups that buy the RMBS bonds that fund the mortgages that hundreds of thousands of Australians use to ...

APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... funds by Goldman Sachs and Alinda Capital Partners. The APFC board poured the investments into the new Goldman Sachs Institutional Infrastructure Partners II fund and Alinda II fund. "A pooled fund has a maximum size at which it can still effectively ...

New Aus Ethical CIO aids expansion strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... chief investment officer to assist in boosting its exposure to the structured credit market and its push into the institutional sector. Halloran replaces previous chief investment officer, David Ferris, who departed the firm to pursue part time work ...

Hedge funds turn insto

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... capital while pension plans, which control significantly more in assets account for 50 per cent. The growing inflow of institutional money has seen pension and endowment funds demand robust operational capabilities from hedge funds. Top of the list is ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... to supporting advisers and we will focus more energy in the second half on getting to advisers," he said. He said institutional platforms, overall, are not well equipped to provide direct share trading, which could go someway to explaining the lacklustre ...

Vanguard appoints Asia MD

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Vanguard has appointed Lee Yuit Chieng as managing director of its institutional business in Asia. Lee, who is starting her role in August, will be based in Singapore and report directly to Vanguard Investments head of Asia and Japan, Trevor Chudleigh. ...

CBA swoops on ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... Bank said ABN AMRO's Australian and New Zealand business would be "complementary to the [bank's] already extensive institutional banking and markets business." On Monday, Commonwealth Bank's share price jumped more than three per cent to close at $43.35 ...

Bellwether secures debut mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Boutique fund manager Bellwether Partners won its first institutional investment mandate after the $430 million Combined Fund invested in its high performing flagship fund. Combined Fund, acting under the advice of its asset consultant, Counterpoint ...

CFS GAM rides $1bn infra wave

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... Fund. Recently, the firm managed to add Sunsuper and Hostplus to its investment base in addition to a number of institutional investors in France, Germany and the Middle East. "We continue to remain extremely buoyant about the future of infrastructure ...

US instos ramp up alts to 22pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Top US institutional investors are expected to allocate more than 22 per cent of their overall portfolios to alternative assets in two years, well above their historic average of single digit allocation, a new survey found. JPMorgan Asset Management's ...