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US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... intention to put the market on notice that regulation is about to step up a level, reaction of the market has already been swift with US newspapers reporting investment managers fearing extra costs and compliance overload. But given the sub-prime debacle ...

Investment infrastructure needs upgrade: ACSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... not only fall on custodians, but required assistance from fund managers, the registries and technology companies such as SWIFT. "Australia continues to develop very innovative investment strategies but the infrastructure that sits behind it is very manual. ...

New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... the old commission versus fixed fee debate. But how about charging performance-based fees the way a fund manager does? Tim Swift, director at Focus Financial Planning, said that would sound good in theory but not so easy in practice. "Definitely, most ...

Vanguard upgrades with SimCorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... the existing system including the trade capture and matching application, Omgeo CTM, investment accounting, unit pricing, SWIFT connectivity and post-trade compliance. According to Vanguard Investments Australia (Vanguard), the decision to change was ...

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 ...