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CFS buys music copyright assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
First State Media Group, part of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, has bought one of the largest independently owned and operated record labels in the US ahead of the Australia launch of its first media fund. First State Media Works, a fund ...

Industry funds on top again

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... performance differential of the industry funds had jumped this year to twice its normal level, driven by industry funds as a group being much quicker to actively incorporate alternative investment strategies and portfolio construction techniques into ...

Australians top list but still underinsured

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... insurance industry have done a lot to try to address the delivery of better insurance products through superannuation as a group scheme to the customer." He said 34 per cent was still an unacceptable level, though, and to increase this, AXA planned to ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

Colonial First State, Macquarie and AMP respectively are the three largest Australian fund managers in an industry that grew over 20 per cent to more than $650 billion last year, according to the latest Pensions & Investments and Watson Wyatt study ...

Margin loan changes more than marginal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Changes are afoot in margin lending with some product providers adding flexibility to their offering while others are clamping down and clipping their client's wings. "There is a fair bit of change happening in the industry and it seems to be happening ...

Credit crunch shows banks still lead the system

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... of the credit crunch is dragging the banking sector into the crisis, it shows how institutional investors are still as a group too weak to not require banks to lead them, said Reserve Bank governor are Glenn Stevens in a speech yesterday. "When investor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in the red today, following a more than two per cent tumble in New York overnight. At 0726 AEST, the September Share Price Index on the Sydney futures exchange was down 126 points to 6,043 on 2,701 contracts. ...

Challenger teams up with Colony

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... corporate portfolio and property transactions. "We are focusing more on the benefits that Challenger can receive from a group with Colony but Colony's investment options will provide us with firm injection of capital," a Challenger spokesperson said. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after comments by the largest US mortgage company on the economic outlook drove stocks down in New York. At 0753 AEST, the September Share Price Index on the Sydney futures exchange was down ...

Virtual bank collapse a warning to online world

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... bad," he said. He added his previous attempt to establish a Securities and Investments Commission, which he passed on to a group of players, imploded due to poor management. A new group, the Second Life Exchange Commission, recently announced it would ...