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Malware attacks Chinese walls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Local fund managers looking to this year's Shanghai World Expo as a platform to offer their fund products are vulnerable to email-related security breaches after the discovery of a malware that targets the mailing list of the Expo's would-be attendees. ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has poured over $1 billion into various global fund managers following an investment meeting in December. The SWF gave $250 million to Oaktree Capital Management and Audax Management ...

BTIM realigns income and diversified funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... people trying to understand what they want out of their alternatives strategy." BTIM is one of the country's largest fund managers with a combined FUM of $36 billion as at December 2009. Gonzalez was previously chief investment officer at Perpetual and ...

SEC launches derivatives review

SEC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... our regulatory protections keep up with the increasing complexity of these instruments and how they are used by fund managers," said Andrew Donohue, director of SEC's division of investment management.

RaboPlus adds Russell funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... manager's multi-manager suite provides investors with more choice. "For customers who have trouble selecting suitable fund managers, funds and the right mix, these funds offer an ideal option," he said. The platform allows investors to access a number ...

Select looks to sign on six dealer groups

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... construction arrangements. Select was also the first firm to highlight its concerns about the Astarra Strategic Fund with fund managers and blogger John Hempton in May.

Instos gain Asian dark pool market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
Fund managers and institutional investors could save money on their Asia-based share trading after Investment Technology Group (ITG) launched enhanced dark pool market place. ITG has combined the institutional liquidity from POSIT, the firm's crossing ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... third of the price. That's why he predicts that in the future, there's the possibility of asset consultants becoming fund managers, partly because it's a model with sustainable business revenues. "Do we want to go there? No. But we are running a commercial ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... to include it into their normal fund capabilities. But the problem with the reliance on asset consultants or the fund managers is that they, too, have limited capability, according to the same survey. For example, only 22 per cent of asset consultants ...

Ambassador searches for additional FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... hiring an additional associate director. Peter Tiffin, director at Ambassador, said the firm is looking for more fund managers after hiring Angus Carson roughly seven months ago and firmly establishing its existing overseas fund managers in the local ...