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Canada plan in talks to buy Livingston

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has entered a consortium with private equity firm Sterling Partners to buy Livingston International Income Fund. According to Livingston's website, the firm - through its operating subsidiaries - is Canada's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... two decades. Rio has also completed the $US750 million ($A859.35 million) sale of the Corumba iron ore mine in Brazil to Vale SA.

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
The US government's move to potentially have direct share ownership in the banks bailed out during last year's crisis could dilute the returns of sovereign wealth funds and pensions funds that hold stake in US finance stocks. This week the US government ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has won overseas recognition for its Global Equity 130/30 strategy. The fund manager's Global Equity 130/30 strategy, which is offered in both segregated account and mutual fund formats and available to Australian ...

Vale Joy Palmer

Joy Palmer, the chairperson of South Australian super fund Statewide passed away on, Monday, November 17, after a dignified and determined battle with breast cancer. Statewide chief executive officer Frances Magill paid tribute to Joy's contribution ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Active managers are paid to make big calls outside the benchmark and fund manager Nicholas Applegate did just that before the bottom fell out of Wall Street. Pedro Marcal, who is second in command to US-based chief investment officer and managing director ...

Commodities bull run won't wane: GMI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... doubt you'll be set for good returns," said Robinson. GMI invests in mining giants BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Xstrata Plc and Vale among others.

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... Xstrata Plc jumped on Thursday after a newspaper said officials would fly to South America to hammer out a takeover by Brazil's Vale amid talk of a deal with Xstrata's biggest shareholder. WELLINGTON - New Zealand's Auckland International Airport Ltd ...

AFS increases stake in Salisbury

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
AFS has acquired a 'strategic stake' The Salisbury Group (TSG) dealership, adding 30 financial planning practices to its books and expanding its Funds Under Advice (FUA) to $6 billion. The full extent of the increase is unclear, as AFS chief executive ...