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SimCorp scoops Vendor of the Year award

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Financial services software provider SimCorp bags a top award for its new module, XpressInstruments, which allows fund managers to better track and analyse structured products and exotic instruments. US trade publication Operations Management awarded ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The fate of the country's $23 billion mortgage trust sector is in the hands of the more than 150,000 investors who now have to decide whether to stay put or bail out before more mortgage trusts freeze redemptions. The federal government's bank deposit ...

SimCorp adds LexiFi modelling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
SimCorp teamed up with French software provider, LexiFi to integrate the firm's financial modelling technology onto SimCorp's investment management system, SimCorp Dimension. The integration of LexiFi's technology means SimCorp can deliver complete ...

Credit Suisse slapped with $12m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
Investment banking giant Credit Suisse has been fined $12 million by the UK's Financial Services Authority for repricing certain asset-backed securities. According to a statement released by the FSA, Credit Suisse was fined $12 million for "failing ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Recent machinations within bond markets should remind all that a month is a long time in capital markets. Early March global yields were shifting south in excess of 18bp. While 10-year yields in Australia avoided such sharp falls due to a better performing ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
The global hedge fund industry is in for a major makeover as hedge fund replication tools or "clones" permeate through the sector to deliver returns at the fraction of traditional costs. Banking giant Goldman Sachs spearheaded the cloning phenomenon ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning, following positive leads from Wall Street and from base metals in London overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0839 AEDT, the March share price index was UP 61 points to 6,027. ...

All aboard SimCorp Xpress

Exotic instruments could soon become familiar territory to Australian-based fund managers after software specialist SimCorp expanded XpressInstruments, a software module for alternative investments. Visiting Australia last week, SimCorp's global chief ...

Back to basics: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Investors may have had a great run over the last twenty-five years, but the 20-year anniversary of 'Black Tuesday' reinforced the need to look back and learn the lessons of the last two decades, according to visiting Vanguard chairman and chief executive ...

Exposure to alternatives raises risks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
In the wake of significant market corrections, Russell Investment Group has warned investors and super funds that a high allocation to alternative illiquid assets can pose additional risks to their portfolio. Geoff Warren, head of capital markets research ...