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RBC Dexia launches unit registry

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... processing service in Australia earlier this year, when RBC Dexia became the first unit registrar in Australia to be fully SWIFT-enabled and operative. Both initiatives are driving automation to reduce risks and lower overall costs in the Australian ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... Lin and her team. They promptly slashed the fund's equity exposure from 30 per cent to 10 per cent and hedged against the swift (and record) fall of the Australian dollar well before Asian equity stocks (and the Aussie dollar at one point) practically ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... very expensive to fund, especially following the 11 per cent increase in the age pension payment. But reaction has been swift, with several experts and groups blasting the decision as unfair. Mike Rafferty from the University of Sydney's Workplace Research ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
Ultra high net worth investors in Australia are starting to wade back into the Australian Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) market, according to Merrill Lynch. Chris Selby, head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management in Australia, has ...

RBC Dexia bids faxes goodbye

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... steps to move custodial managed funds processing from being a manual to an automated approach following the adoption of the SWIFT messaging for Australian funds. Under the new service, the custodial services provider can process applications, redemptions ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... with the Financial Times, he said that, 'It may be necessary to temporarily nationalise some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring.' Almost at the same time, US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd remarked that ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

Boutiques wary of automated systems

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... boutiques are still sitting on the fence with jumping on board. According to Tim Hamer, commercial manager, funds at tech firm SWIFT, Australia's funds management industry believes that the automation - particularly in the areas of processing and information ...

FPA heads to eye of Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... get a result until the beginning of June. "You need to have processes in place when things do go wrong and we will take swift action. That is the message to all members so that clients of financial planners know we're working in their interests," said ...

Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... hard for our pennies during this year. However, there'll be some terrific money making opportunities for the sage and the swift." Feng Shui is a traditional Chinese system that uses astrology and geography to promote prosperity. It's more commonly seen ...