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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 ...

QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more than 13 per cent per annum since inception and a one-year return of over 16 per cent to May this year. "We exploit ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... ratio at current levels." The trust lost 9.3 per cent for the year against the the benchmark's -2.8 per cent, while the gross return for a five year period was 3.2 per cent against the benchmark's 5.1 per cent. Platforms are the predominant investors ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... have added 5 countries to his original 16 and also provided figures on public debt and S&P's current sovereign ratings). Gross Ext Debt GED per GED % Public Debt Country (GED) Capita of GDP % of GDP S&P US$ Billion US$000 % % Ratings 1. Ireland 2,311 ...

PGI fund placed on FirstChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... in the retail investment market. The fund, which has $18.7 million invested in it, has reported a loss of 60 per cent in gross performance for the year, and -26 per cent over three years. Since inception, the fund lost 5.4 per cent. Principal Global ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... competitive devaluations and efforts to limit the national debt --then US President Hoover tried to maintain it at 40 per cent of gross national product - were among the policy mistakes that prolonged and deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s. Better ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... Federal Reserve statement that the pace of contraction was easing. The Commerce Department's first estimate of first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) showed the world's largest economy contracted at a 6.1 percent annualised rate. While considerably ...

Aviva snaps up Russian pension

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... around 17,000 members and services large multi-national corporate clients. The holding company has more than $165,000 in gross assets. Aviva becomes one of the leading foreign owned providers of non-state pension fund products in Russia as a result of ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... International Shares fund posted a positive 0.36 per cent return over a three-month period to February while the MSCI World ex Aust Gross Index (USD) lost more than 15 per cent. The fund lost more than 2.5 per cent over a one-year period to February ...

SMSFs beat the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The average self managed super fund (SMSF) posted a gross loss of more than 11 per cent in the twelve months to June last year, beating the S&P/ASX 100 over the same period, according to new research. Using Praemium data which contained around 4,500 ...