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India fund opens to unlisted assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
The India Equities Fund Limited is broadening its investment scope to include unlisted investment assets. Funds for the unlisted part of the portfolio will be sourced from new raisings or cash reserves and investments through a wholly owned subsidiary ...

ANZ appoints Denby

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
ANZ hired former Nomura Asia executive, Nigel Denby to chief risk officer, Asia Pacific. Denby was previously regional head of risk management and credit at Nomura Asia. Before that, he worked at HSBC across risk management and in the corporate, investment ...

AMP hit by lower discretionary contributions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The September quarter cashflow report from AMP is the latest set of data to show that Australians are feeling the pinch, with many reducing the amount of their discretionary contributions in the last three months compared to the same time last year. ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Fund manager Perennial turns to history to give financial planners cogent tips on how to ride the bear market and even better, beat the doom-and-gloomsters. Any way you describe the events of the last two months would be nothing short of an understatement. ...

WW names top fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Colonial First State, Macquarie Bank Group and AMP were among Australia's funds management firms to be included in the Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 rankings last year. Among the top 500, 15 Australian managers made the cut, making up ...

No sale for Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Suncorp chairman John Story has confirmed that discussions around the sale of the firm's banking and wealth management arms have ended for now. According to a statement released on the ASX, Story said that the market events in the past week in particular ...

CFS eyes fundamental indexing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
Colonial First State has partnered with US-based fundamental indexing experts Research Affiliates in a bid to upgrade its multi manager portfolio. CFS will soon unveil a new subsidiary, Realindex Investments, which will have the exclusive right to use ...

Macq inv lending sale won't hit Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
Macquarie Bank's decision to sell its $3 billion investment lending arm is not expected to affect its Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) leveraged property product, Property Lever. Dean Firth, Macquarie relationship banking executive director, said the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks slowed their declines on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index fell 1.49 per cent and 1.18 per cent respectively while the NASDAQ managed to gain 0.27 ...

When five become one: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
The $6.2 billion Australian Unity Investments is looking to morph five of its retail property syndicates and trusts into a hybrid $400 million mega fund. The fund manager is currently seeking investor approval to convert its five offerings into a single ...