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More than two years' investment bank profits lost

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
Investment banks may have blown up one and a half years worth of profit from the sub-prime crisis and subsequent contagion. And the sector may lose more than two years' profit, a study by Morgan Stanley and financial services consultancy Oliver Wyman ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... measures properly. "Lets get real, how many of these signatories have been doing their ESG homework? Do they have an integration plan? Are their analysts profiting from ESG research and ideas? The answer: not many," said Walsh. "To address this Ethical ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
IRESS' planning software, XPLAN, has recorded the highest level of satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform ...

Investec takes to the air

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Specialist banking group Investec has raised its stakes in the aircraft leasing business with the launch of the Investec Global Aircraft Fund - its first institutional offering to the Australian market. According to a statement released by Investec ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... gained on Monday as a report showing stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity helped the economic outlook and a plan to overhaul the regulation of US financial markets boosted bank shares. Despite the gains on the last day of the first quarter ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... ended. Conrad Kozak, JPMorgan global head of the firm's securities company, said the purchase was in line with the firm's plan to expand into the Nordic market. "A key cornerstone of our strategy is to align ourselves more closely in region with clients. ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The Swiss sustainable investment market jumped 67 per cent last year to $33 billion at the end of December 2007, according to investment consulting and research company onValues. The Zurich based firm surveyed 19 investment managers on "specialist sustainable ...

Int'l equities full of quality: S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
A Standard & Poor's international equities review found more than half of the funds had achieved either four or five star ratings. The report analysed 62 large cap and nine small cap international equities funds and found six had been awarded five star ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... date to what happens around the world. The New York Times has reported that US Treasury will today formally announce its plan to merge the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and extend the powers of ...