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Macquarie enters China JV

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Macquarie Group has established a trust company joint venture in mainland China - the second JV in less than a week following its recent deal with Middle Eastern investment bank, Gulf Finance House. The Chinese JV, which will be called Sino-Australian ...

Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Three KPMG partners have been banned as registered auditors for periods ranging from nine to 24 months following ASIC's crackdown on their roles in the Westpoint collapse. ASIC has accepted enforceable undertakings (EUs) from three partners of KPMG's ...

Aviva names SMA model managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Aviva has appointed five fund managers including Ausbil Dexia, Goldman Sachs JBWere and Perennial Investment Partners to provide eight different models on the firm's separately managed account (SMA). The SMA model manager line-up, which also includes ...

Signs of a residential property recovery

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
Several indicators published over the past few weeks point to a strong upward trend in residential property prices and a revival of investor interest in the sector. The RP Data-Rismark index shows that for the year to May, the average value of a house ...

Malaysia opens doors to foreign fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
Australian fund managers looking to expand in Asia could soon put Malaysia on their watchlist, following Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement yesterday allowing foreign fund managers to be "fully liberalised" in the country. Razak, in his most ...

J.P. Morgan grants $1.3 bn HFoF mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan selected Arden Asset Management to manage a $1.3 billion proprietary hedge fund of funds portfolio for the investment bank. The deal means J.P. Morgan will seed seven of the hedge fund manager's funds and invest in Arden Asset Management's ...

ING adds cap protected funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
ING Australia has released two funds on the OneAnswer platform to provide investors with capital protection that rises as the value of fund the increases. The ING Protected Growth fund 2 provides 85 per cent protection on the funds and the Protected ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

Russell's Andrew Lill moves to AMP

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Russell's director of investment strategy for Australia, Andrew Lill, takes a senior post at AMP Capital Investors. Lill has been appointed head of investment specialists, listed assets, for the firm. Under the new role, he will head a team of six investment ...

Morgan Stanley adds to Sydney business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Morgan Stanley is continuing to expand in Australia with four appointments in the local business. Morgan Stanley veteran of 10 years, Matthew Donald returns from the firm's Hong Kong office to take a senior role in the sales trading and equity derivatives ...