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ING IM deal sees UBS climb the ranks

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
UBS Asset Management has agreed to acquire ING Investment Management, in a deal that catapults the Swiss firm to the ninth biggest fund manager in Australia. The deal, which is subject to Dutch Central Bank approval, takes UBS' funds under management ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
Will Britten, the former managing director of BlackRock Australia, joined Credit Suisse yesterday, as its new managing director and head of asset management in Australia. The appointment signals Credit Suisse's intention to become a more influential ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Fresh events and reports released overnight really did not add to what we already know. We already know that Greece will be bailed out for a default because its exit from the Eurozone would trigger a game of "who's next?" Small and insignificant Greece ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
We were just full of it yesterday, weren't we? Yes Virginia, we were filled with the words fear, anxiety, panic, doom and all else in between that spells M-E-L-T-D-O-W-N. We were so full of it that at one point, I thought it was already October - you ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index to cater for a growing appetite to invest in Africa, coinciding with bullish earnings growth forecasts for the continent. According to S&P, the Access Africa index is made up of the largest and most liquid equities ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Manufacturing Index plummeted to minus 7.8 in June - the lowest since last November - from plus 11.9 in May. Readings below zero signal a contraction in the (New York) state. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder confidence index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... part-time employment was up 29,800. The May participation rate was 65.6 per cent, steady from April. "While this is not a great signal for the economy, it does provide further evidence that the RBA will not need to raise rates quite as aggressively as ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... (months) were very negative," Mr Saffer said. "With interest rates having been on hold since November, perhaps this is a signal that some confidence is returning to the (property) sector." But the data was not enough to lift banking stocks, with only ...

FTSE sees rising demand for after tax index

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... benchmarked against the FTSE ASFA Australia 300 capital gains tax index, which was launched on March 21. The move is expected to signal the start of a shift towards investments in low tracking error mandates to achieve performance that is not eroded ...

Era of uncertainty plagues global markets

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... director Asia Pacific fixed income, AllianceBernstein. "A number of developments are taking place that together, in our view, signal a long term trend in which the swings in economic growth and asset prices will become greater than during the low volatility ...