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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 ...

CGT roll-over relief for super mergers

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
The Federal Government is expanding the optional capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over for capital losses for mergers of complying superannuation funds. Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, last week announced that the optional ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
There is no doubt that today's media reports would - in one form or another - contain references to that old Wall Street adage, 'sell in May then go away'. Every time the fifth moon of the year is upon us, theories, studies and reports proving or disproving ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sydney-based boutique firm Instreet Investment raised nearly twice its initial target of $20 million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
Wall Street must be at home sick with the flu last night. The S&P 500 and the Dow barely budged at the same time that news of more infections traveled around the globe. Perhaps the swines are just taking advantage of cheaper plane tickets and accommodations ...

JV raises $1bn for Indian infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
The State Bank of India and Macquarie Group raised over $1 billion in capital to invest in Indian infrastructure projects with a goal to raise around $2 billion in additional capital over the next few years. According to a joint statement, global investors ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Ten US pension funds which invest $1.4 trillion in global markets have combined their muscle to create a set of five financial regulation principles aimed at restoring investor trust. The ten funds, which include heavyweights California Public Employees' ...