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LMW Invest teams up with Denison

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
LMW Invest and the Denison Group have formed a joint venture aimed at delivering traditional syndicated property investments to retail investors.

Russell tops transition manager awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has been named the Transition Management Provider of the Year at the recent UK Pension Awards and won top rankings in the annual surveys conducted by PLANSPONSOR and Global Investor magazines.

Plus Capital eyes offshore managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Third party marketer, Plus Capital, is in talks with three offshore alternative investment managers to provide Australian institutional investors with access to their strategies.

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Scottish fund managers are hoping to lure Australian institutional investors into their fold by positioning themselves as one of Europe's largest investment and asset administration hubs.

CFS GAM releases second PRI report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM), which manages more than $128 billion in funds, has launched its second progress report on implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

S&P launches risk controlled indices

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Standard and Poor's has launched risk controlled versions of its S&P 500 and S&P/ASX 200 indices as investors look to gain exposure to the US and Australian markets while limiting their risk.

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Forestry group ITC banks on its prudent business model to ride the crisis facing the agribusiness sector after Timbercorp and Great Southern went into administration.

Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Investors with funds tied up with Pengana Capital's Australian Property Securities Fund can expect to get a reimbursement of "as close to 100 per cent" of their capital following last week's announcement of the fund's closure.

Diamonds are an investor's best friend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Move over bonds and cash - precious rocks, avant-garde art and collectible cars are now gaining favour as "alternative" investments for some of the world's richest high net worth investors.

Investors rush to oil ETCs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Exchange traded commodity (ETC) provider, ETF Securities,enjoyed a $1.2 billion rise in inflows into oil ETCs in the first four months of this year.