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QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... appropriately." Addis said that QIC is currently managing around $500 million of Asian mandates and is hopeful that interest from sovereign wealth and other large institutional investors will lead to further inflows. "The feedback we've received from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... debt-ceiling mess in Washington, Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States, fears of a new recession and Europe's sovereign debt crisis. "It was a very bad month, you want to forget it as quickly as possible," said Gregori Volokhine, president ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... little tired if you ask me," Ms Chan said. "Hopefully we will see a better September." She said ongoing worries about sovereign debt issues offshore were perhaps the biggest influence on the local bourse, given the lack of domestic economic data this ...

PM Gillard: super to support economic stability

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... international seas, super is an anchor," said Gillard, adding that she believes super is Australia's trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund with market benefits. To continue this growth, Gillard said the introduction of the 12% Superannuation Guarantee ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... July, after a 0.1 per cent dip in June. Investors also got an unexpected dose of positive news from Europe, where the sovereign debt crisis has been weighing on market sentiment. Two Greek banks, Alpha Bank and Eurobank, announced that they were merging ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... and Poor's downgrade of the US' credit-rating from AAA to AA+ on 5 August, Moody's Investors Service slashed Japan's sovereign credit rating to Aa3 from Aa2 - three notches below its top rating -- yesterday. According to Moody's website, "The rating ...

US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... operating officer of Citibank, Douglas Peterson, three weeks after Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. The McGraw-Hill Companies announced that Douglas Peterson would become president of Standard & Poor's effective September ...

CFS Global Asset Management creates new emerging market debt team

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... from the hub of Asia. The new team will develop investment capabilities across emerging corporate debt, hard currency sovereign debt and local currency debt markets, Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) said. Institutional investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... have fallen for four consecutive weeks amid fears of a double dip recession in the US and worries about the European sovereign debt crisis. HiFX senior trader Stuart Ive said the small gains made by US stocks overnight helped push the Australian dollar ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... income portfolio manager for an inflation-linked bond portfolio at GIC Asset Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. She also worked as a director of fixed income research at Barclays Capital, where she developed the firm's US ...