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Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... 2008," said Inga Sweet, senior vice president and author of STAR. "Institutional investors kept their long-term investment focus and managed their rebalancing needs, while mutual fund or retail investors were more short term performance focused." Market ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Australia's sharemarket was 0.75 per cent higher at noon, led by the big miners. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 27.4 points, or 0.75 per cent to 3695.6 while the broader All Ordinaries was up 25 points to 3652.2, shrugging off a decline ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... operational risks associated with the investment of institutional assets and brought counterparty credit risks more into focus," said Tom Geraghty, European head of investment consulting at Mercer.

MIR takes up Charles River

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
MIR Investment Management has adopted all Charles River Development's Investment Management System modules and the financial services software provider's global electronic trading network. In 2006, the Australian based asset manager implemented Charles ...

Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Trust Company is expanding its responsible entity (RE) business to attract mandates from international investors and in a separate move, is placing its financial planning arm under a strategic review. John Atkins, who took on the role of managing director ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Headline: IMF warns worst to come, toxic debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered ...

Mercer MM gets Lonsec tick

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
Mercer has been named the only multi-manager to achieve a "Highly Recommended" rating in 2009 from research house Lonsec. The 'Highly Recommended' rating is only granted where Lonsec "has high conviction that the fund or product can achieve its objectives ...

Northern Trust appoints investment risk head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... Gayer will be responsible for IRAS client relations, sales and product development in the APAC region, with a particular focus on strengthening Northern Trust's infrastructure for local delivery of risk and performance services. Gayer comes to Northern ...

Joint Committee has consumer loans in its sights

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' inquiry into financial products and services will include a review of banking products. Reflecting the transfer of oversight of consumer finance to the Commonwealth, which will ...