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Nomura absorbs Lehman Bros Australia

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Asia-Pacific. The deal is still subject to certain conditions but Nomura said all Lehman Brothers employees in the Asia Pacific region will be offered employment with the firm. This would include employees of Grange Securities, which Lehman Brothers ...

Mercer appoints consulting director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Mercer has promoted Nick White as director of consulting, Asia Pacific. White worked as a senior consultant across asset liability modelling projects in the UK before moving to Australia in 2004 where he took a role as head of manager research at Aon ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... or 6.33 per cent, to $30.40. Insurers followed the trend, AMP Ltd adding 65 cents, or 10.3 per cent, to $6.96, AXA Asia Pacific up 26 cents, or 5.19 per cent, to $5.27, and QBE Insurance Group rising 96 cents, or 3.92 per cent, to $25.46. Overnight ...

Korean fund administrator hires SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... timely, accurate information to an increasing number of clients is going to be very important," said Richard Cummings, Asia Pacific regional director Smartstream. "Customer service and the delivery of ongoing service enhancements will be an important ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... since March 17. The MSCI World Index (developed equities) recorded its biggest one-day fall in six years and the MSCI Asia Pacific (ex Japan) dropped to its lowest level since October 2006. The global sell-off came after the US fourth largest investment ...

Sun Life appoints Goodall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... existing management team. In this position, Goodall will be responsible for developing new distribution channels across Asia Pacific, specifically in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong and China. "In this role, I will work in very close collaboration ...

Ipac revises global equities strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
AXA Asia Pacific subsidiary ipac shifts more funds into quantitative investing and away from fundamentally driven strategies when it mandated Enhanced Investment Technologies and Arrowstreet Capital to manage more than $800 million in funds. Enhanced ...

Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... award winner, Kapstream Absolute Return Income Fund manager Kumar Palghat (previously head of portfolio management, Asia Pacific, for PIMCO Australia) said he kept his strategies simple over the year. "In July last year, the markets looked pretty bad ...

HSBC launches alt fund services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... service for their Australian-domiciled business is a powerful story," said Lillian Wong, head of fund services in Asia Pacific. Colin Lunn, head of business development in Asia Pacific, said the new service will certainly benefit local institutions. ...

BNP Paribas wins six years with AMP

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... excellence and scaleable robust processes for both existing and new clients," said head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Asia Pacific, Jean-Marc Pasquet. Ken Shaw, BNP Paribas head of sales and relationship management, said the mandate was a two-way ...