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Mercer invests in consulting business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... additions to its investment consulting business, having seen 'increasing interest from investors in the area of operational risk assessment in the past few years'. JP Crowley is one of the new appointments, joining from Ibbotson Associates, as a Melbourne ...

SimCorp launches "office of the future"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... position analysis and decision support program designed for portfolio management across all asset classes, reducing operational risk and enhancing strategy generation. "Compliance Manager", which the company described as "the future of compliance monitoring" ...

DST's HiPortfolio goes live at ING Aus

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... activities. The goal was to improve the management of cross-investment processing whilst reducing existing levels of operational risk," said said Geoff Allanson, head of financial operations in the Corporate Finance Group at ING. Allanson said HiPortfolio ...

Time to lift operational reserves: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... operational reserves, according to new research from Mercer. "As a minimum, we recommend that all funds should have an operational risk reserve equal to either 100 per cent of the fund's annual in-house operating costs, 50 per cent of the fund's annual ...

SMSFs carry underlying key person risk: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
A new report has raised concerns about the structure of self managed super funds (SMSF) as trustees potentially become unable to adequately invest and administer their retirement savings as they get older. The Financial Wellbeing in Retirement report ...

GESB can manage tougher measures on capital reserves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... recommended new capital requirements should be introduced and that legislation should define the minimum and maximum operational risk reserves, versus the current policy of not defining the reserves. Michelle Dolin, GESB chief executive said that this ...

Crédit Agricole signs on Calypso

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... regions our STP rate has increased to 98 per cent, and across the board there has been a reduction in IT and operational risk. "Furthermore, we have seen improved customer service through the comprehensive reporting system, which was easily adapted to ...

SimCorp appoints Aus/NZ client manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... to underpin that growth, and guide clients through this turbulent period of regulatory change and heightened operational risk concerns," said Lister. Lister has a background in consulting as well as having held senior positions with banks including Standard ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... measured. "ASFA fully supports the measuring of the overall performance of super funds. Governance, management of operational risk, sustainability of the business and efficiency are all part of the equation in providing greater accountability and transparency," ...

Mercer appoints head of super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... Mercer Sentinel, the firm's investment operations specialist team to focus primarily on daily and event-driven operational risk, and Rebecca Dixon joins Mercer's Responsible Investment team. Mercer now has more than 100 professional investment consulting ...