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Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... self help program," said Baxter. A key selling point of Case Manager is that it is repository independent, meaning fund managers, advisers and super funds will be able to install the program on top of a non-Vignette or competitive repository system. ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Detect, deploy, execute - fund managers and super funds can now implement better real-time analytics and event management with Apama 4.0, a new complex event processing (CEP) platform. NASDAQ listed Progress Software Corporation recently deployed Progress ...

Third Link signs key fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... boutique managers including BlackRock, Colonial First State and Perennial will form the first set of underlying fund managers to the Third Link Growth fund, a fund-of-fund designed to donate $1.5 million each year to charity. The three fund managers ...

BlackRock absorbs Impact

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
A new technology designed to help fund managers better demonstrate their investment methodology to clients is going to be exported in a big way after US giant BlackRock flagged plans to buy IT outfit Impact Investing. The deal is significant not only ...

IFSA slams proposed default fund

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... given the index fund is rear looking?" Livanas believes that a single index fund would cause a withering of active fund managers, ultimately stifling market diversity.

S&P names 2008 Fund Awards finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... Awards. Standard & Poor's Fund Services, together with national newspaper The Australian, are awarding outstanding fund managers in nine sectors, and three group categories -Emerging Manager of the Year, Product Distributor of the Year, and Fund Manager ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
US fund managers drive better governance in the companies they invest in by using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... the two former joint head of equities at ING IM launches the fund's new Australian Equities division. While most fund managers hunker down awaiting the passing of today's bear market, Bennelong Funds Management is taking the bull by its horns with the ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... difference of 12 per cent since 2001. The massive gap is significant because of the amount of funds invested by fund managers in the property sector now topping $200 billion according to Rainmaker. This excludes the total value invested by both fund ...

Aust and HK strengthen retail ties

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Hong Kong and Australian retail fund managers will be able to sell their products to investors in each other's markets following ASIC's signing of a mutual recognition declaration with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). For the first ...