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Instos win $5.5m in sustainable grants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Colonial First State Global Asset Management, AMP Capital Investors and ING Management received more than $5.5 million worth of government grants to make the firms' invested properties more sustainable. The grants were awarded last week as part of the ...

Aviva flies ETF flag

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Aviva has added exchange traded funds (ETFs) to its retirement product offerings. Aviva has added several new options to the shares listing including ETFs, listed investment companies, interest rate securities, instalment warrants, and all shares on ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Legg Mason has closed its wholesale defensive trust, citing its FUM of less than $10 million made it impractical to continue offering the product. According to a May update of the fund, which has $9.5 million in funds under management, the fund manager ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The $14 billion Emergency Services & State Super has closed the doors of its cash plus strategy six months after the introduction of its pure cash option. According to a statement on the ESSSuper website, the fund closed its cash plus option to new ...

Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Perpetual has taken extra steps to preserve its balance sheet and cut costs, including a dividend reinvestment plan announced this morning and a move towards lower bonus payments and caps on executive and board remuneration. The 'surprise' announcements ...

Investors hang on to managed futures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Managed futures may have performed poorly in the last three months but retail investors in MAN Investments' OM-IP products are not putting their hands up for redemptions, said the firm. Hersh Gandhi, head of product development in Australia for the ...

FoHF gain liquidity tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Australian fund of hedge fund managers can manage liquidity levels in real time after Northern Trust enhanced the firm's Hedge Fund Monitor product. The feature, which is available via Northern Trust's relationship with youDevise, allows the fund of ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Equity markets have come a long way after hitting their lows in March. Their run-up was first measured in days, day stretched into weeks and now...months. The optimism engendered by the slowly mounting economic indications that the market has left the ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... managers, financial advisers and other finance professionals - would be put under watch or shown the door at the first hint of red ink on their clients' portfolio because of erroneous advice. Not the credit ratings agencies it seems. Perhaps they are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was marginally in the red at noon, with losses in financial stocks countering gains in the resources sector on higher commodities prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 9.3 points, or 0.25 per cent ...