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Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... funds under advice (FUA), with over $19 billion in FUA. BlackRock's shares closed the session almost 3 per cent lower in New York, while Morgan Stanley ended the day near the unchanged mark.

Swan weighs in on currencies, promotes reform agenda

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Speaking at the New York Stock exchange overnight, Treasurer Wayne Swan reaffirmed his commitment to growing the national retirement savings pool and weighed in on the currency wars that are threatening to envelop global capital markets. "If the global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... positive territory, with the best performer, Newcrest Mining, up 2.44 per cent, or 99 cents at $41.59 at 1022 AEDT. In New York overnight (AEDT), the Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.8 per cent, the S&P500 climbed 2.09 per cent and the NASDAQ advanced ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... legislation, and the indirect result could be new investment opportunities for Australian super funds. Shortly after the New York Times revealed that JPMorgan was moving its proprietary trading desks to a unit within its asset management division, Bank ...

SSgA hires NYSE exec to join ETF team

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
State Street Global Advisors has appointed the former global head of exchange traded funds of the New York Stock Exchange as managing director and global head of ETF product development. In this new role, Ebner will be based in State Street Global Advisors' ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... currency manipulation. Bloomberg reported last night that, "The dollar slid 1 percent to $1.3393 per euro at 4:20 p.m. in New York, from $1.3264 yesterday, after reaching $1.3440. The U.S. currency dropped 0.7 percent to 84.53 yen, from 85.09." And that ...

Singapore to win asset mgmt race: report

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... 2025," noted the report. By 2040, the three largest clusters by value of assets under management are projected to be New York, Singapore and London. Australia was not case studied in the report, however the predictions for Singapore come during a time ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... least the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is not confused. Presenting its latest outlook in New York, OECD secretary-general Angel Durria said that, "It is becoming increasingly clear that the economy has entered a soft patch ...

Former VFMC chief joins CP2

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Baring Asset Management. Prior to that that he spent 17 years as principal at Towers Perrin in Australia, Hong Kong and New York. After resigning from VFMC in April last year, he became the chairman of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which ...

DTCIM selects Imagine software

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... financial technology users as the top ASP vendor in Asia Risk magazine's Technology Survey 2009 and has offices in Sydney, New York, London and Hong Kong. Its ASP service, Derivatives.com, is an application that connects all users to Imagine's ASP data ...