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Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies.

GPT fund buys stake in Sydney tower

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The GPT Wholesale Office fund has bought a 50 per cent interest in an office building from Grocon Developments.

Ausbil Dexia Aus equities in high demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Ausbil Dexia, which manages $11.5 billion in Australian equities, has closed its flagship investment funds to new institutional clients after opening the investment strategies briefly last year.

Khazanah buys Oriental University stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Investors might eye China's industrial growth as investment opportunities, but Khazanah Nasional is taking a different tact - forking out more than $45 million for a 10 per cent stake in Oriental University City Limited as part of its China education ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously.

Contango clients top up mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Contango Asset Management's institutional clients have been topping up their small cap investment mandates as the sector's benchmark returned more than 63 per cent in the year to February.

Perpetual tops S&P review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Perpetual has become the only manager to receive a five-star rating in S&P Fund Services' latest review of the Australian Equities - Large Cap sector-specific peer group.

CFS GAM appoints ASSET4

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has appointed ASSET4 as an additional environment, social and governance (ESG) research provider.

Local councils set to recover more from Lehman

PIPER ALDERMAN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Local councils that invested in Lehman CDOs won a small victory this week after a court judgment that could allow them to recover more of their money back from the collapsed firm.

NAB a step closer to buying AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
National Australia Bank has reached binding terms with French company AXA and AXA Asia Pacific to buy the firms' Australian and New Zealand businesses for $4.6 billion.