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Government plants $60m innovation funding seed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
Three innovation fund managers have received a total of $120 million of new funding to invest in Australian start-up ventures, half of which has been provided by the government. Through the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), the government has invested ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Ltd websites. Grocery wholesaler Metcash Ltd releases full year results. In Melbourne, the 5th Annual Technology and Innovation - the Future of Banking and Financial Services Conference is held, and Infrastructure Australia chairman Rod Eddington addresses ...

Time for instos to embrace ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... speakers bullish on a pick-up in activity. However, education remains a key factor if more institutions are to indulge. "Innovation is important, we need to ensure that we provide something that allows investors to do things they wouldn't otherwise be ...

Era of uncertainty plagues global markets

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... outlined these developments that fund managers and global investors should consider, namely the new role of financial innovation and understanding its impacts on market volatility, political uncertainty at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic level ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Canberra in 1996 to advise then Prime Minister Keating. On appointing Russell yesterday to Secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in statement, "I am sure Dr Russell's experience and ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
A shift towards cloud computing has resulted in significant return on investment, according to a Bloomberg technology survey of financial services companies. Over one hundred chief information officers and technology decision makers from major financial ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... Fixed income benchmarks which are all nearly income cap weighted are massively inefficient," said Peebles. Product innovation and a higher reliance on the skills of managers is the answer to moving away from benchmarks, said Peebles, adding that it will ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Fixed income benchmarks which are all nearly income cap weighted are massively inefficient," said Peebles. Product innovation and a higher reliance on the skills of managers is the answer to moving away from benchmarks, said Peebles, adding that it will ...

Noonan takes ACSI presidency

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees and is on the board of the Government's advisory body, Innovation Australia, chairing its Venture Capital Committee. Noonan was deputy president of ACSI for the last year. Former Mercer ...

Regulators cautioned on world exchanges

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... "Such a blueprint should lead to a clearer evolution of Asian exchanges to a position of sustained strength that allows innovation and progress to meet the needs of this growing and dynamic region." Without such a blueprint, D'Aloisoi warned that there ...