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Investment

CBA wealth management FUA up 11%

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
Commonwealth Bank's wealth management division contributed strongly to the bank's solid half-year result, increasing funds under administration by 11% and delivering outperformance from 85% of funds over three years.

LaSalle acquires Tokyo office complex

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) has acquired a mixed-use office complex in central Tokyo.

ETFs up 48.3% to $15 billion

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) grew 48.3% to $14.8 billion in the year to December 2014, according to market analysis by Plan For Life.

New online bond researcher launches

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Fixed income researcher BondAdviser was launched today through an online portal.

AllianceBernstein rebrands

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Global asset manager AllianceBernstein will now be known as AB, following a rebrand.

AMP Capital buys Sydney hospital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
AMP Capital has closed a deal to buy Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Health Services Public Private Partnership (PPP) Project from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

LSE to sell Russell Investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) will sell the investment management arm of Frank Russell Co, which it acquired last year for US$2.7 billion.

Future Generation fund makes $618k for charities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Future Generation Investment (FGX) will be able to donate $618,000 to charities after six months trading on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Global appetite up, local confidence down

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Appetite for overseas assets has increased by 3% over the last nine months over concerns that the Australian economy will not record healthy growth in the next year, a Certitude Global Investment survey has found.

La Trobe Pooled Mortgages Option gets record rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Credit specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial has been awarded a 'Superior 4 1/4' star rating by SQM Research (SQM) for its Pooled Mortgages Option.