Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 241 - 250 of 261 results for "Swift"

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... most of the day as the market was buffeted by worries over the housing slump and the credit crisis, major indices mounted a swift upturn in the last half hour of trade as investors bid up shares of technology companies such as BlackBerry maker Research ...

Lack of automation hikes costs

... were a decade ago. The local funds management industry can drastically cut average administration costs by automation. A SWIFT pilot program on transactions messaging conducted last month has highlighted that one transaction messaging done manually could ...

Messaging transactions for 12 cents: SWIFT

... around $25 per transaction to 12 cents. Early last month, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), the global co-operative for setting messaging standards for banks and other finance companies, flagged the pilot program ...

BT appoints new CFO and replaces multi-strategies head

... ahead of the partial float of its funds management arm. Earle MacGregor is the new chief financial officer while Robert Swift is the new head of multi-strategies, replacing Al Clark who resigned from the role citing personal reasons. MacGregor was previously ...

SWIFT protocols to slash transaction fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... and super funds could be slashed from an average $22 down to just 20 cents if they adopt the new SWIFTNet Funds protocols. SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is the global co-operative for setting messaging standards ...

Zurich reviews managers after DeAM divestment

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Hot on the heels of Deutsche Asset Management's (DeAM) divestment of its Australian funds management manufacturing business to Aberdeen Asset Management, Zurich Financial Services has asked Mercer Investment Consulting to undertake a review of managers ...

Colonial appoints GM product and services

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... design and enhancement execution throughout its development," Bissaker said. "It's pleasing for me to be able to make such a swift appointment to this position and is testament to the excellent internal candidates we have at Colonial First State."

Russell Select scores $400m mandate

... which UniSuper snapped up this month. Russell's managing director in institutional investment services said that UniSuper's swift and decisive commitment was a strong validation of the group's investment process and 'alpha generating' solutions. "The ...

Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
A key part of Suncorp's merger with Promina relies on spending $395 million to integrate their information technology infrastructure in return for securing savings of $225 million within two years. Part of the challenge is Suncorp already manages a ...