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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... promising. Elsewhere in Europe, Amsterdam put on 0.34 per cent, Brussels edged up 0.09 per cent, Madrid added 0.39 per cent and Swiss stocks were up 0.42 per cent but Milan fell 0.26 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday with Tokyo ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... Elsewhere in Europe, Amsterdam and Brussels each rose 1.19 per cent, Madrid put on 0.63 per cent, Milan was up 0.77 per cent and Swiss stocks gained 0.41 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets were mixed on Monday after a US jobs report gave a muddy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... 4,036.59 points. In Frankfurt, the DAX bucked the trend to close up 0.14 per cent at 7,193.68 points. Elsewhere in Europe, Swiss stocks ended off 0.13 per cent, Brussels slipped 0.14 per cent, Lisbon dipped 0.41 per cent, Amsterdam shed 0.68 per cent ...

SAM becomes TransCap

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... of the banking group Rabobank - in Australia. SAM Australia was originally a wholly owned subsidiary of 11 billion plus Swiss-based manager Sustainability Asset Management (SAM) which itself is majority owned by Robeco. According to the fund's website ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... in Sydney. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued a surprisingly dovish policy statement while overnight the Swiss National Bank, heretofore the only "G10" monetary authority to have intervened in currency markets since the advent of the GFC ...

CFS replaces 452 Capital with Integrity, CFSGAM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... manager, Peter Morgan, with another, Paul Fiani. Fiani, the former head of equities at UBS Asset Management, famously left the Swiss giant after opposing a private equity takeover of Qantas, a position many in the industry feel was vindicated by Qantas ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... Treasury note falling to a record low. In the currency markets investors flocked to safe havens, such as the US dollar, yen and Swiss franc. Gold rose for a sixth day. The S&P 500 index fell back well below its 50-day moving average, a worrying development ...

Funds thrive with nimble IT

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... managers try to grow their business with less resources than before the GFC, said Pascal Wanner, account manager for the Swiss market at SimCorp. Wanner said that while many fund managers already have sophisticated and tailored IT systems in place, what ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... was closed only last 1 February. According to Bloomberg, "The swaps with the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss central bank, as well as the Bank of Japan, will allow them to provide the "full allotment" of US dollars as needed. A separate ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South Africa and worked for Swiss Re in number of key roles, including chief underwriter. AMP's director of wealth protection products Michael Paff said 'head ...