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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 ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The Australian share market has received a negative lead from Wall Street after stocks dropped for a fifth day as investors shrugged off signs the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates and focused concern on financial companies' balance sheets. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market generally has received positive leads from Wall Street, particularly with news this morning that US congressmen have reached agreement on a rescue package for US financial institutions. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0745 ...

LGSS affected by shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
ASIC's crackdown on short selling has left a profound impact across the local investment industry, including upsetting the investment strategy of the $5.5 billion Local Government Superannuation Scheme. Around eight to 10 per cent of LGSS' investment ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The financial stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to be protected at all costs, as their falls would cause cataclysmic effects not just in the US but the rest of the world, including Australia. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian ...

ESG assets made clear: JPMorgan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
Australian fund managers and super funds worried about the principles governing their investments can now siphon "unethical" assets via JPMorgan's ESG-friendly screen. Unveiled three months ago in Europe, JPMorgan has developed a post-trade environmental ...

Who plays the PE game, wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
US funds with a high private equity exposure have come out tops of the investment returns league, new figures show. A recent survey by Northern Trust indicate that players with heavy diversification strategies, particularly those who favoured private ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market was up slightly at noon, weighed down by the banking sector. Wall Street pared early losses and ended slightly higher overnight as a drop in oil prices helped restrain fresh worries about the financial sector. At 1200 AEST ...

US instos ramp up alts to 22pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Top US institutional investors are expected to allocate more than 22 per cent of their overall portfolios to alternative assets in two years, well above their historic average of single digit allocation, a new survey found. JPMorgan Asset Management's ...