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HFA to re-open flagship fund

HFA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... to new investment as early as July this year - more than a year since it was forced to suspend redemptions due to the liquidity crisis. The decision to re-open the fund comes as the value of the fund's net assets coupled with improving liquidity in underlying ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... equity turnover plummeted from Kshs. 97 billion in 2008 to only Kshs. 38 billion last year - a 60 per cent drop. Market liquidity also fell from 11.42 per cent to a narrow 4.59 per cent. Despite the fall in equity turnover and liquidity, the NSE All ...

Insto investors win from govt Chi-X approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... operating officer at Instinet, an electronic trading provider, said institutional investors will be able to access greater liquidity if Chi-X is granted a licence. Increased competition will also narrow trading spreads, which means traders could reduce ...

Instos gain Asian dark pool market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... after Investment Technology Group (ITG) launched enhanced dark pool market place. ITG has combined the institutional liquidity from POSIT, the firm's crossing network, with dark liquidity from large broker pools and external venues in Asia to create ...

Where movies and finance come together

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... that movie distributors, exhibitors, producers and investment entities will have access to a public market to create liquidity and hedge their business activities. "The number of people who visit movie theatres each year and form opinions about a film's ...

Just cash, thanks

TYNDALL RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... assets such as mortgage-backed securities or asset-backed commercial paper that potentially boosted returns but hurt liquidity, and therefore attracted a level of risk that many investors were unaware of," said Justin Cowper, head of institutional business ...

Super funds to gain better risk management

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... would take the data used in the administration platform and aggregate it to provide funds with accurate information on liquidity, unit pricing and credit risk. He said previously, many super funds were not looking at these risk management factors as ...

Vanguard ETFs reach $100m mark

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... offer investors access to the diversified and low cost characteristics of indexing coupled with the trading flexibility, liquidity and transparency of shares. "ETFs track financial indexes with the added benefit that they can be traded throughout the ...

Mortgage trust managers have lots of questions to answer

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... substantial 4.5 per cent of funds under management. For the past 16 months the mortgage trust sector has been dealing with a liquidity squeeze, which was triggered by a sharp rise in redemption requests that followed the Government's introduction of ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... from market fluctuations. "There are five traditional risk factors: equity risk, credit risk, inflation risk factor, liquidity risk and time frame," he said. "Today, we have to include a sixth one - the public policy risk factor. When you have governments ...