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Untangling the Astarra web continues

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
New information from Trio Capital administrator PPB showed more than half of the $63 million Asttar Wholesale Portfolio Service's assets were invested in funds and property firms part and wholly owned by the failed fund manager. According to a letter ...

ING IM appoints Taurus for gold strategy

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
ING Investment Management has appointed Sydney-based Taurus Funds Management to invest in gold and precious metals within the OptiMix Diversified funds. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer, multi strategies group at ING Investment Management ...

ADPIA appoints new president

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The Australian Direct Property Investment Association has appointed Robert Olde, executive director of Questus, Perth, as president. Olde replaces Linden Toll, director of marketing and distribution at LMW Invest, as president. Adam Murchie of Drapac ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... make like-for-like comparison here with retail funds and those overseas due to very different structures. For example, US funds can charge anywhere between 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent - with the average fund charging 1.19 per cent per year, according ...

Agriculture wins pension fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... main activity we are receiving are from the UK and Middle East, and there's a follow up from European funds and some US funds who are putting their cash [into agriculture investments]," he said. Blomfield said key areas of investment interest include ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Managed accounts specialists Dalton Nicol Reid has picked up three dealer group mandates in the last month, including one from AMP. Jamie Nicol, chief investment officer of DNR, said that there's no doubt that the managed accounts market is booming ...

Macquarie targets funds mgmt acquisitions

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
Macquarie Group is aiming to take advantage of anticipated divestments of wealth management businesses by its global banking and investment banking rivals to bulk up in funds management. Macquarie Funds Group (MFG) head Shemara Wikramanayake told analysts ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Perpetual has reopened applications for three of its $1.7 billion mortgage funds after an 18 day suspension to all its mortgage and income funds. The fund manager announced yesterday that it is now accepting applications for the Monthly Income Fund ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Colonial First State, ING and APN Funds Management have joined the ranks of the country's leading mortgage funds that have suspended redemptions in the wake of the Government's guarantee on banking deposits, locking up more than $6 billion of investor ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
US funds with a high private equity exposure have come out tops of the investment returns league, new figures show. A recent survey by Northern Trust indicate that players with heavy diversification strategies, particularly those who favoured private ...