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BNP Paribas completes AMP/AXA funds transition

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... Paribas Securities Services in Australia & New Zealand added the successful planning and execution of a task of this magnitude, demonstrates the in-depth experience and quality of our global and local resources, state of the art technology and operational ...

Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... constraints. Funds executive Matthew Drennan speaking on the same industry panel as Liptak disagreed with the notion saying the magnitude of one person's super money was not a big enough driver to overcome agency risk. Despite this Drennan said that ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... 500 index dropping by 1.1% overnight - the fourth consecutive daily fall. We've not seen a day-on-day decline of this magnitude since 2.2% loss posted on 21 June - the day US data releases all disappointed one and all, Markit's flash PMI report indicated ...

Investment management hit by downturn

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... According to Rainmaker research, it was the second largest BlackRock mandate. "Rainmaker estimates that a mandate of this magnitude represents around $3 million dollars in lost fees," said Alex Dunnin, director of research & editorial services at Rai ...

BlackRock loses $1.2 billion iPac Securities mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... According to Rainmaker research, it was the second largest BlackRock mandate. "Rainmaker estimates that a mandate of this magnitude represents around $3 million dollars in lost fees," said Alex Dunnin, director of research & editorial services at Rainmaker. ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... funds borrowed earlier." "A reasonable conclusion is that the degree of vulnerability to a global panic of any given magnitude appears to have diminished, rather than grown, over the past few years. It hasn't completely disappeared, and it would not ...

BT flags wealth "land grab"

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... over from Count," Butterworth said. In total 23 practices have signed with BT Select, including 10 who moved from BT Magnitude. "The financial advice industry is undergoing massive change driven by regulatory reform, market forces and merger and acquisition ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... commodities: Gold dropped by 2%, silver 3.6%, copper 2.2%, oil 2.1%. (As an aside, the Fed would still be unmoved by the magnitude of last night's drop). In the absence of economic reports, the markets' reaction would be interpreted as disappointment ...

Emerging managers add twice the alpha

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... excess returns are attributable to survivor and other biases (other research has indicated they are of this sort of magnitude), the excess alpha of around 200bp pa is still more than enough to cover the full cost structure of most institutional funds," ...

BT: Focus on Count disproportionate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... platform then we do not have a mandate for the business to be moved off platform, on platform." While not commenting on the magnitude of the transition costs being paid to practices making the switch to BT, Spiers said all select costs paid are in alignment ...