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Investec wins $150m AMP Cap mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Investec Asset Management has gained a $150 million mandate from AMP Capital Investors to invest in emerging markets. The investment mandate was invested through AMP Capital's Future Directions multi-manager product to Investec's 4Factor Emerging Markets ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... alone. Not because economic fundamentals in Australia are shoddy: The unemployment rate was at 5.4 per cent in April, gross company operating profits increased by 3.9 per cent in the first quarter - the biggest in one and a half years; and, business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... PricewaterhouseCoopers release their joint Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for May. In equities news, distribution company Metcash Ltd releases full year results. Sensis chief executive Bruce Akhurst is scheduled to address an American ...

Aviva Investors mines Asia for mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... said the firm is working on making sure the market doesn't confuse the asset management arm with the sale of the life company to NAB/MLC. He said Aviva Investors is continuing to develop investment strategies for local retail and institutional investors ...

Opes Prime director faces 22 charges

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... director Laurie Emini has been charged with 22 offences of breaching his duties, following investigations by ASIC into the company's collapse. Laurie (Lirim) Emini was charged with offences of breaching his duties as a director of Opes Prime and another ...

CalSTRS finances solar energy project

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) and a number of investors have invested more than $175 million to help a solar energy company build 14 solar power plants in the US. The equity finance will be used to support solar energy company Brightsource's contracts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... NL, DataDot Technology Ltd and Galaxy Resources Ltd are among companies holding annual general meetings. Construction company Seymour Whyte Ltd and Canyon Resources Ltd are scheduled to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. On Friday, the Australian ...

Great Southern investors fight back

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers has filed a lawsuit for Great Southern investors seeking the court to void loans given to invest into failed agribusiness investment schemes, including loans provided by Adelaide Bank. The class action covers 1,700 investors ...

Schroder appoints specialist to quant team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Schroder Investment Management Australia has appointed former Julius Baer executive Luc Simoncini as investment specialist to its global quantitative equity team. The appointment takes the size of Schroders' quantitative equities team worldwide to 19. ...

Western Asset seeks ops in volatile markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
One of the world's largest fixed-income managers, Western Asset Management, has launched a new absolute return credit fund aimed at exploiting credit opportunities amid volatile markets. Speaking at the Legg Mason Investment Symposium in Sydney yesterday ...