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Macquarie buys Allegiance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Macquarie Bank's Funds Management Group (MFMG) has deepened its roots in the US funds management market by scooping up California-based fixed income fund manager, Allegiance Investment Management. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed ...

Olympus and Contango explore India

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
Specialist fund managers Olympus Funds Management and Contango Capital Partners have joined forces to unlock the gates of India's investment market to Australian investors. Contango recently acquired a 64 per cent stake in Olympus, an Indian investment ...

Olympus float on hold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
The joint initial public offering (IPO) of Asia Diversified Fund Ltd and Olympus Funds Management has been withdrawn this year due to the recent Asian market sell-off. "Given our track record in India and the significant potential across Asia, we are ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
Consumption expenditure in India accounts for 62 per cent of GDP placing it in the same league as developed nations like the US and Australia, highlighting that high-value consumer sectors such as financial services could be big investment opportunities ...

Aussie super funds leap into top 300

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... Watson Wyatt survey. Local funds grew at 68 per cent per annum in local currency terms over a three-year period, while US funds grew at only 9 per cent per annum in the same period. Large pension funds in the 'other - developed world' category grew at ...

Church funds take youth off the streets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
The National Conference of Church Superannuation Funds (NCCSF) has donated $30,000 in surplus funds from its recent conference to the Youth off the Streets charity. Since 2006, any surplus funds from sponsorships or delegate registration fees from the ...

Four international funds added to Zenith recommended list

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... presence in Australia to complement offshore teams. Franklin also noted an increase in country-specific funds. "While US funds and Europe funds have been in existence for some time, funds such as China funds, emerging markets funds and India funds are ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... joint survey by Watson Wyatt and US publication Pensions & Investments on the top 20 pension funds has revealed that US funds' have lost their market share from 66 per cent of the total assets held by the top 300 pension funds in the world back in 2000 ...

AAA and Questus marching to the same drum

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
Adelaide based AAA Financial Group and Western Australian based Questus Capital have entered into a strategic partnership to streamline back office and support functions and establish one of the country's largest non-aligned planner networks. The strategic ...