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S&P rates Advance's MIR managed funds as very strong.

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has given Advance Asset Management's new MIR-Managed funds a 'very strong' rating. S&P fund analyst Veronica Gullo says, "We assess MIR's sector capabilities in Australian shares as very strong." Gullo says MIR has demonstrated ...

Challenger gets serious about infrastructure

Challenger Financial Services has confirmed it is serious about infrastructure and announced it is looking at launching a global infrastructure fund. Challenger is talking to retail brokerage firms and institutional investors in order to determine the ...

Four new share managers for UniSuper

UniSuper has appointed ABN Amro Asset Management, Contellation Management, Concord Capital, and Herschel Asset Management as its four new Australian shares managers. The four managers were allocated $950 million in funds on November 3, 2004. UniSuper ...

Qantas flies its fixed interest with Perennial

Qantas Superannuation has appointed Perennial Investment Partners to manage its fixed interest mandate. Perennial's head of fixed interest Glen Feben will be responsible for managing the new Australian Core Plus mandate of $210 million. "Qantas has ...

NAB announces new Australian appointments

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2004
The National Australia Bank has named three external candidates among four appointments to positions required to lead the integration of the bank's Australian businesses. The appointments follow last month's restructure of the bank's top echelon management ...

Babcock & Brown to sell shares at $5 ahead of ASX listing

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2004
Global investment banker Babcock & Brown will sell 110 million shares for $5 each in an initial public offer ahead of a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. Babcock & Brown on Thursday lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments ...

HBOS appoints former Westpac exec to head Australian unit

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2004
United Kingdom-based bank HBOS has appointed Westpac Banking Corp\'s former head of institutional banking, David Willis, to head up its new Australian operation. The appointment would take effect from 1 July, and Willis would \"be leading the group\'s ...

Japanese invest A$120 million in local listed property fund

Japanese retail investors continue their attraction to the Australian property market, having injected A$120 million into a new Australian Listed Property Trust (LPT) fund managed by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM). The Merrill Lynch Global ...

CDC IXIS launches new Australian fund-of-hedge funds

CDC IXIS Asset Management Australia is the latest group offering an Australian dollar denominated fund-of-hedge funds, with the launch this week of its Aurora II Fund. The fund will feed into the Aurora Offshore Fund Ltd II, managed by Chicago-based ...

RBA may crack the whip on rates today

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2003
The Reserve Bank board may use Melbourne Cup day to crack the whip on interest rates. The central bank board meets today, with new figures suggesting a consumer-led retail spending spree is continuing, putting pressure on the bank to lift rates. New ...