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Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Associate managing director, Shiv Taneja. Over the past few years, Malaysia has been ramping up its Shariah fund offerings in a bid to establish itself as a center for Shariah fund manufacturing, noted the report. Today, Malaysia tops the list for most ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... externally managed fund. MIESF's move is a leap away from its peers that have shown favouratism towards pure cash products in a bid to seek safe haven from the global financial crisis. The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation (ESI Super) for instance ...

IRESS eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... Singapore. The additional data is being sourced from Thomson Reuters. The initial rollout will deliver five levels of market depth (bid and ask quotes), with trade and volume data, and news feeds from Dow Jones and Reuters. The release date for the Asian ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The cost of trading Asian and Australian equities rose by 150 per cent last year compared to a year ago after bid-ask spreads widened to abnormal levels during the credit crisis, according to research. Trading cost data and analysis provider ITG released ...

Securitor combats bad times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... "welcome tool of support", said Younger. Meanwhile Securitor intends to push its Passport to Profit program this year in a bid to fine-tune four areas of its members' business structures. "It's all about going back to basics and looking at their business ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Bad bank sparks optimism in US equities. Last night's decision by the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee to leave interest rates unchanged at virtually zero was a no-brainer. How can it do otherwise when the deepening financial and ...

Jobs safe in Australia: ING

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... spared the chop. ING released a statement yesterday that it intended to reduce its workforce by 7,000 positions in 2009 in a bid to cut costs and weather the global financial crisis. "In order to adapt the organisation to the new business environment ...

NGSS on mandate spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The $2.65 billion Non-Government Schools Superannuation Fund has splurged on eight new mandates in a bid to overhaul its international equity portfolio. The super fund's $600 million international equity portfolio now counts Baillie Gifford, Deutsche ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... The Bank of Korea reduced interest rate to a record low of 2.5 per cent early in 2009 - the fifth in three months - in its bid to avert a recession. The Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) unexpectedly cut its key interest rate for the sixth ...

Superpartners to push for paperless super admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... provider Superpartners plans to invest $70 million into replacing its core administration systems and other IT processes in a bid to become "100 per cent electronic" in three years' time. While there have been earlier reports about Superpartners' plans ...