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The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... in terms of revenue and the sourcing and development of new top-tier business. From 1989 to 1994, Bob worked at First Chicago Futures as a senior sales person and London desk manager. He started in the financial markets in 1985 with Brown Shipley Merchant ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... good, strong days and people are happy to take some money off the table," he said. "Coming from our offshore office out of Chicago, they see with the US election... just (achieving) an outcome is going to buoy the stock market to start off with, but ...

Quiet Market Activity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... the index' 10 components fell led by money supply and stock prices. Four components rose led by building permits. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index was reported at -0.6 for June, up from downwardly revised reading of -1.06 in the previous month. ...

TRS pumps $1.26bn into PE

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... benefits to teachers and administrators employed at Illinois public elementary and secondary schools outside the city of Chicago. The fund has assets valued at $40.6 billion as of March 31, 2008.

UBS international shares derated

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... last 18 months, appointing Nicholas Melhuish to head of Global Equities in October last year. The move to London means Chicago based portfolio manager Bruno Bertocci no longer has an active role in the portfolio. According to Morningstar, UBS has indicated ...

Watson Wyatt appoints ex-Intech CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... (Reigate), Denis Musiyichuk (Reigate), Fabio Cecutto (London), Neel Mehta (Reigate) and Hyde Hsu (New York), Phil Starewich (Chicago), Paula Wada (Stamford), Yan Sun (Sydney) and Henry Ching (Hong Kong). The consulting firm has scored a coup attracting ...

Pengana wins $150m QIC mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... providing significant challenges for institutional investors and their clients. The Global Volatility fund invests in the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) or "fear index" measuring expected volatility in the US S&P 500 index. Nick ...

Living in a volatile world: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
... be well positioned. The Pengana Global Volatility Fund works by investing in the "fear index", otherwise known as the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) that is a measure of expected volatility of S&P 500 index options over the next ...

Pengana launches global volatility fund

... and later to major global stock market indices. The fund was the brainchild of Alvin Wilkinson, a former director of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) who joined Pengana in March this year. He helped develop the US Fear Index or the CBOE Volatility ...

Northern Trust appoints new Asia Pacific head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... positions within the bank, most recently as head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa asset servicing 2005, until returning to Chicago in May this year.