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Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Credit Suisse Investments hopes to fill the local investment gap for alternative asset classes that are genuinely uncorrelated to domestic equities - a move that ends in "catastrophe". Filo Sedillo, the local managing director in alternative investments ...

Finance firms must highlight career opps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... need to articulate the career development opportunities that exist by joining and staying with them as local workers start to eye opportunities overseas again. Speaking at the Finsia Financial Services Conference 2009, Fiona Reed, global head of talent ...

Premium eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Premium Wealth Management is in talks with a dozen practices to join its ranks and is also looking at ways to access separately managed account (SMA) technology. Chris Saunders, chief executive at Premium Wealth Management, said the business is talking ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... Australians. While the finding that many Gen Yers overspend and undersave is not new, the details on where their money goes is an eye-opener. For example, while some Gen Yers have long been chided for relying on the 'mum-and-dad' bank, they are also ...

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
The $4.4 billion Auscoal Super is eyeing small caps and Asia as key international equities segments that currently present the most investment opportunities. Bruce Watson, chief executive of Auscoal, said the fund is seeing a number of opportunities ...

Chinese Australians return to the East

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Chinese Australian investors have never been far from their Chinese roots and portray a different investment mindset to the average Australian investor, as many yearn for bigger exposures to Asia, according to one specialist fund manager. Jonathan Wu ...

Gems in smaller property trusts: BTIM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... Investment Management. Currently, deals by Valad and smaller Centro funds for instance are catching industry veteran Davidson's eye. And they would mostly likely continue to do so in the next calendar year, he said. "Some of the better opportunities ...

Britten to head BlackRock Global Investors in Aus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... at the top comes just three months after BlackRock announced plans to buy the investment management arm of Barclays for an eye-popping $8.1 billion in cash plus 37.8 million shares of common and common equivalents in BlackRock - creating a $3.3 trillion ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... Walter, professor and director at SimCorp StrategyLab, said those investment management businesses that continually kept an eye on costs and reviewed their processes were far better off. Cost management had intensified in recent years. More than 70 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was almost one per cent lower at noon, dragged down by weaker commodities prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33.5 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4667.7, while the broader All Ordinaries fell 37.9 points ...