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Week of resignations for UBS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... for UBS Global Asset Management, another executive has tendered his resignation. Hot on the heels of head of Australian equities, Paul Fiani's departure, deputy portfolio manager, Shawn Burns, has also tendered his resignation. Burns will stay on until ...

Print Super terminates mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... $340 million in mandates to Tyndall, MIR, ABN AMRO and Generation. Print Super cut Maple-Brown Abbott's $180 million equities mandate, giving $110 million to Tyndall and $70 million to MIR. Portfolio Partners has lost its High Growth Shares Trust mandate ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

Colonial First State, one of the largest equities funds manager in the country, hopes to turn its misfortunes on the personnel front into an opportunity to hunt new talent and revamp its performance track record. The revolving door at CFS has kept turning ...

Aberdeen capitalises on expanded talent pool

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... talent and overseas credit products following the March acquisition of Deutsche Asset Management's (DeAM) Australian equities and fixed interest capabilities. Director of business development, Neil Hegarty, said Aberdeen was looking to use recently acquired ...

Economic round-up: Beijing tugging the reins

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... per cent in one day it caused a five-day market retreat that wiped out more than AU$4 trillion from the market value of equities across the globe. Considering this plunge in the index was provoked by misgivings of government moves to curtail speculation ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... and pushing the Dow to a record close, as more takeover activity and consumer sentiment data improved the outlook for equities. A gauge of consumer sentiment rose more than expected in May, despite rising gasoline prices, and reassured investors about ...

BT appoints Aust equities portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... Financial Group has appointed former Colonial First State executive Jim Taylor as portfolio manager in its Australia equities team. Crispin Murray, head of BT Australian Equities, said Taylor would help continue the success of BT's Australian equities ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was down 18 points to 6,376, on a volume of 1,614 contracts. Today in equities news Rio Tinto will be talking about clean coal technology and a deal it has struck with BP, while Fairfax will be giving ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... share price index contract rose 40 points to 6347 on a volume of 8,227 contracts. ABN Amro Morgans Brisbane, director of equities, Bill Chatterton, said the market had made a gentle movement upwards following the US market lead. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Stand by one manager: T Rowe Price

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
Generating alpha in the current global equities market meant employing only one manager per portfolio and conducting a lot of research into bottlenecks, according to visiting T Rowe Price vice president, Darrell Riley. Speaking at the Financial Standard ...