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State Street wins $8b Rio mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... investment services for $8 billion in assets. State Street will provide Rio Tinto with custody, fund accounting, securities lending and investment analytics services for its Canadian, US and UK pension schemes. The services will be provided from State ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... find themselves needing money anew? What if the US Congress - looking at the budget blow out - does not allow anymore re-lending? The reasoning goes that this could spark even greater fear in financial markets than the one witnessed in 2008. Take away ...

Broker swindled investor funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... Securities & Investments Commission. According to ASIC, Asset Finance Service was a mortgage broking business that sourced its lending capital from private investors. During December 2005, the firm received a $123,441 injection from a private investor ...

Mortgage funds redux

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... have better loan books and better returns for investors. "Over the last seven months, while the lenders haven't done any lending, we've had a red hot go at reviewing our fund," he said. For example, as minimum requirements on commercial loans on the ...

Mortgage fund managers review their options

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... introduction of the guarantee last year and funds were forced to freeze or limit redemptions, stop taking new money and stop new lending. Perpetual chief executive David Deverall said his group's $2 billion Monthly Income Fund, which is meeting redemptions ...

Hillross selects Macq platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... listed securities, term deposits and insurance. The platform also includes the Macquarie Cash Management Trust and margin lending services The platform joins AMP, Asgard and a number of other platform providers on the Hillross suite. John McMurdo, managing ...

J.P. Morgan extends link with ACC

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... investment portfolio last year. Besides providing custody and administration services, J.P. Morgan will also deliver direct lending, compliance reporting and transaction capture services. Combining both the services with the one custodian should provide ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... 10 working Australians believe that their Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions should be raised to 15 per cent, lending support to industry associations that have long lobbied for higher SG. Mercer's SG Opinion Poll of 1,000 working Australians ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... much lower than what they were, so I think it's a pretty sensible time to... make the change." The Australian Securities Lending Association also applauded the lifting of the ban, stating that the move will put Australia back at a "level playing field" ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... these, the US Federal Reserve would continue to accept new forms of securities as collateral for its Term Asset-backed Lending Facility (TALF). However, the flipside of all these billion dollars worth of acronyms - PPIP, TARP, TALF - is a decline in ...