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Smaller funds lack risk reserves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
A Mercer survey has revealed smaller super funds are less likely to have appropriate levels of operational risk reserves than larger funds, a survey found. An operational risk reserve is created by the super fund to provide immediate access to funds ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

Local S&P veteran heads to global stage

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... management skills, following a career at Credit Suisse and more recently as head of her own change management and operational risk consultancy for financial services firms. They have joined with a remit to integrate the currently separate European and ...

Standard Chartered signs on SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... reconciliations platform using TLM Reconciliations. This will enable the bank to increase efficiency, help reduce operational risk in its back office operations and further improve its customer service levels, said SmartStream. "We selected SmartStream ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Two leading technology providers, Yieldbroker and Omgeo, have joined forces to offer a fixed income processing platform designed to eliminate manual errors and reduce post-trade operational risks. Electronic trading platform Yieldbroker, which counts ...

S&P reinstates ratings for 18 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... the underlying or fund-of-fund level, is at the forefront in our maintenance of the ratings. "The business and operational risk of smaller hedge fund managers and strategies is a concern, and S&P continues to receive timely information in this regard." ...

Omgeo expands derivatives tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... while trading strategies have moved in lockstep with the demand for derivatives, the infrastructure to manage operational risk in the back office has not kept pace. "There is an urgent need for a standard, automated process for investment managers to ...

SimCorp adds LexiFi modelling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... 4.3. Peter Hill, SimCorp managing director, said integrating the LexiFi technology onto its system would reduce operational risk for its SimCorp Dimension clients. "What would normally happen is your IT vendor would have to go away and take 18 months ...

BNP Paribas responds to alpha demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... division identifies stocks that provide sustainable, above average prospects for growth with low financial and operational risk. Robert Harrison, BNP Paribas Investment Partners managing director, said the fund responds to demands from Australian investors ...

Finsia names new president

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has appointed Westpac group head of operational risk and compliance, Chris van Aanholt to president of the institute's board. In keeping with Finsia policy, van Aanholt succeeds Michael Shepard ...