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Nigerians seek CFA certificate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Nigerian finance executives are increasingly seeking to boost their credentials after the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program recorded a 44 per cent jump in the number of local professionals signing up in a year.

Carthona to advise on $500m insto money

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Call Carthona Agriculture the Australian company that could. Since the start of the year, institutional investors have signed up to ask for Carthona's consultancy advice on a total $500 million worth of investments.

T. Rowe Price to grow retail presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Having won investment mandates from major super funds, long running US fund manager T. Rowe Price plans to expand its services to retail investors.

Equities jackpot for HNWs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Over 90 per cent of wealth manager clients will demand direct equity investments in the next two years, new figures show.

FTSE launches enviro tech indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
FTSE Group has launched seven environmental technology indices.

HK investors wary of local market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Hong Kong based investors still remain bearish on how the local market will perform for the rest of the year after the J.P. Morgan Investor Confidence Index dipped lower in the March quarter.

Seven in 10 investors are bullish: ML

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Around 70 per cent of investors are bullish that the economy will improve in the next 12 months, according to the latest Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers.

ING drops guarantee for interest

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
ING Australia has released the next version of the ANZ Flexible Term Deposit Fund that provides a higher interest rate instead of the government guarantee.

...and what it means for Australian instos

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
A combined BlackRock and BGI changes the course of Australia's investment history, creating the tenth largest fund manager in the country with more than $40 billion in assets.

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant.