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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 ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
GESB has appointed former Citigroup executive Kate Budiselik and ex-Coronation Fund Managers portfolio manager Edwin Schultz as investment strategists. Budiselik and Schultz will be part of the investment team managing WA-based GESB's $10.4 billion ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
If you can't beat 'em, regulate 'em... again. The Germans must have been standing too close to the euro kitchen that they could no longer bear the heat. After all, them Deutsche -- more than any other Eurozone-member nation -- have much at stake and ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is investing more than $800 million as part of a joint venture to assist in the production of resource assets in Canada. The China Investment Corporation (CIC) formed a joint venture with Penn West Energy Trust to ...

Veitch wins top AXA adviser award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Michelle Veitch of MAP Financial Strategies in South Australia has won the Gerald Lippman Perpetual Trophy, AXA's top gong at its national annual adviser awards. MAP has two practices, one in Adelaide's CBD, which trades as Business and Investment Consultants ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Super funds and investors upset about the mining stocks plunge this week should shift their blame from the government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon as market-pleasing annual profit results from Australia's biggest investment bank, Macquarie Group, boosted the financial sector. By 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 28.6 points ...

Directors disqualified for 20 years

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
ASIC has disqualified six directors in the last three months from managing corporations for a combined 20 years, following their involvement in failed companies. Of these disqualified directors, three were from Victoria, two were from Queensland and ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Institutional investors may want to broaden their investment scope to farmland after a report found investments in agricultural property prices have fallen from the pre-crisis highs and may benefit from rising commodity prices. The Cerulli Edge: Global ...

AXA names advice state managers

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
AXA Australia has appointed a financial advice state manager in Western Australia and New South Wales/ACT. Andrew Wright was appointed state manager of AXA Financial Advice in Western Australia. Wright previously worked at Professional Investment Services ...