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Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

ARIA chief rejoins State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Outgoing ARIA chief executive Lochiel Crafter is returning to State Street Global Advisors as head of investments for Asia Pacific. Crafter announced last month that he was leaving ARIA after joining the fund in May 2008. In the newly created role at ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
The Australian market has received strong leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, at 0743 AEST, the December share price index contract was 42 points higher at 4,693. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Research, a number of global banks will have to raise these funds including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, CrA(C)dit Agricole and Lloyds in Britain. The group, within it 27 countries representatives including Australia, also announced ...

CERTITUDE appoints head of distrib

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Former Credit Suisse and MillhouseIAG executive Hector Ortiz was named new head of distribution for CERTITUDE Global Investments. Ortiz, whose role started on September 6, is responsible with the distribution of the company's key products, namely the ...

Asgard appoints new head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Craig Lawrenson, head of product and strategy for BT Wrap, has been appointed the new head of Asgard. Lawrenson has been with BT for some 14 years, most recently as head of product and strategy for BT Wrap with responsibility for the design, execution ...

Wilson HTM outsources clearing

NEW RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Penson Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd (PFSA) announced the signing of a five-year agreement to provide equities clearing services for Brisbane based broker Wilson HTM Investment Group. Deane Sweeney, Wilson HTM chief operating officer, said outsourcing ...

More million dollar members for MDRT

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) has welcomed a number of new members to its ranks as more financial planners are finding themselves successfully qualifying for membership. New members include Max Moodley, Graham Craig, Sam Capra, Mark Osborne, Marc ...

Dimensional Aus hires two

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Dimensional Australia has hired an additional portfolio manager and a new compliance manager for its Sydney office. Thomas Reif has been appointed portfolio manager, joining the firm from JPMorgan, where he previously served as executive director of ...