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GSJBW team heads up boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Three ex-Goldman Sachs JB Were Aussie equities experts are joining forces in a new nabInvest-backed boutique venture, Fairview Equity Partners. Fairview is an Australian equities small caps boutique investment manager that is majority owned by its investment ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... institutional investors can use to view live indicative prices and simultaneously request competitive two-way markets from 10 major price makers in over 700 Australian and New Zealand debt securities. The group's dealer-to-dealer market opened only last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... cent, to 1,657.21. The broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 10.42 points, or 1.11 per cent, to 930.09. LONDON - Major European markets soared as spirits lifted and recession fears faded. The FTSE 100 index rose 316.16 points, or 8.05 per cent ...

FIIG opens term deposit site

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... providers, allowing people to invest directly with a provider. "Investors have mostly relied on the advertising campaigns of the major term deposit providers to access whether they're getting the best cash rate...these indices provide an easy point of ...

Ratings first, platforms second: CAAM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... Australia chief executive officer, told the Financial Standard that the fund manager was in talks with one of the industry's major platforms to gain more exposure to the retail sector. However Borysiewicz said he has "put the brakes" on talks with these ...

All not lost for LPTs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... per cent on average since June, compared with direct property's zero per cent returns. This is a huge divide - and is a major factor in the close watch by investors on which asset class would come out the victor from the financial crisis. Right now ...

BT reaps $1.7bn in net inflows

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... overall decline of $6.6 billion. However the fund manager managed to achieve net inflows of $1.7 billion due to several major institutional mandate wins and a higher penetration of the platform market. "We have increased our penetration of the traditional ...

AustEthical director elected MLA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Pedal Power, Oxfam, Anglicare and the Conservation Council. Le Couteur will become a major player in the ACT parliament during the next four years as Labor won seven seats, the Liberals six and the Greens four. She ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... applications or redemptions for their mortgage or income funds, freezing more than $6 billion of investor money. But not all the major players are locking up their funds. A spokesman from Bendigo Bank-owned Select Mortgage Fund, which runs more than ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The Australian share market was weaker at noon, turning around from positive territory, as the major banks and miners fell. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 56.3 points, or 1.42 per cent, at 3,918.1, while the broader All Ordinaries was ...