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AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The time is ripe for investors to boost their allocation into European property, with likely returns as high as 30 per cent as the sector comes out of one of the worst periods for global real estate.

Challenger buoyed by annuities, boutiques

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The guaranteed income streams provided by annuities continue to prove popular with Australian retirees post GFC, with Challenger Financial Services posting another record quarter for its annuities' business.

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
While Australian board responsibility may be high, standards fall behind global competitors in terms of carbon pricing and reduction targets.

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Despite having the world's fourth largest investment market to source funding from, Australian fund managers have once again failed to crack the world's top 100, new figures show.

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has won its first Institutional $30 million Global Resources mandate from Non-Government Schools Super (NGS).

KKR bids for Perpetual

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has made a takeover bid for Perpetual.

QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
One of the country's largest fixed interest managers raises the ante in the race to provide investors with income protection against rising inflation.

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
Researcher van Eyk has given Chinese equities a "high-medium" risk rating in its first review of the market.

Assets that thrive under pressure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Fixed interest, hedge funds and indexed investments were the top three asset classes based on growth in funds under management (FUM), according to Rainmaker research.

The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows.