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Macq advisers launches actively-managed commodities fund

... individual commodity stock is performing. Swanger noted that the local sentiment is mirrored overseas. He said that at an institutional conference in Barcelona some 93 per cent of the audience expected to increase their commodities exposure during the ...

Exec option hedging may remove incentive

... executives hedging the equity option component of their remuneration may remove their performance incentive, an Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) conference heard. Amongst other things, investors were warned be skeptical of such arrangements because ...

MetLife changes put focus on service

... systems back in house with 23 new appointments, while at the same time adding two business development managers to its institutional team. Head of institutional business, Michael Burke, said the change of strategy in bringing administration back in house ...

Investment banks and structured providers move into lending

... differently about retail customers. "Our structured product background has let us transport what is normally an institutional way of financing into the retail space. "This approach also means we raise our own capital [for lending] and we lend our own ...

Russell goes west and beefs up business development

... more than 15 years experience in the financial services sector, including time spent with Rothschild/BT in their institutional business development team.

RBC Dexia scores FOHF mandate

... new fund will be distributed in Switzerland and Luxembourg from the second quarter of 2006 targeting retail and institutional investors. RBC Dexia, headquartered in London, and PKB Privatbank AG have a working relationship that dates back to 1997. RBC ...

Westpac supports Landcare with enviro term deposit

... BT has over $250 million invested in a range of socially responsible investment funds. According to Mercer, BT's Institutional Ethical Sector Trust has been the number one Australian SRI fund over the past three years with a 29% return in 2005. BT's ...

Australia leads charge on super assets growth

... Australia is ranked sixth in the world with US$592 trillion in super savings. While the global numbers are solid, with institutional superannuation assets totalling US$16.4 trillion, Watson Wyatt noted concerns over defined benefit funds with liabilities ...

Macquarie Pro Series takes off with Concord Capital

... never had a retail front, their reputation was for being very good at what they did. "We were attracted to that institutional pedigree." Concord's investment philosophy of high conviction stories means, said Douglas, that the small allotment of stocks ...

MLIM and BlackRock create $1.35 trillion fund

... Merrill Lynch is widely known as a retail broking house while BlackRock has cemented its position globally as an institutional fund manager. The transaction is expected to be finalised in the third quarter of 2006 and subject to regulatory and BlackRock ...