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Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... have a chief investment officer (CIO) and/or an investment team - an emerging trend that would have been impractical a decade ago when super funds were much smaller and before compulsory contributions were introduced. If they are making the investment ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... be valued more frequently." Alternative asset weightings for not for profit super funds jumping seven-fold in the last decade, according to Rainmaker, mean the problem is not going away. "The increasing level of investment in unlisted assets over the ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... Britain ended a bit over a per cent lower. Big deal. Wall Street still produced the best quarterly performance in more than a decade. Bloomberg reports that last night's EOFYS on Wall Street came 'after consumer confidence unexpectedly slid and delinquencies ...

Matrix celebrates 10 years

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... group Matrix Planning Solutions Limited is celebrating its 10th year of operations - quadrupling its size over the past decade. Founded in 1999, Matrix opened its doors as a dealer group in early 2000, with 20 advisers around Australia. Today the firm ...

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... effectively turning the country into an "online economy". "The iN2015 plan, laid out in 2006, outlines a roadmap for the decade-long process of improving Singaporeans' quality of life by employing technology and the highly proactive Singaporean government ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... firm ensure we will remain at the forefront of addressing key investment issues and trends that have emerged over the past decade and are now accelerating dramatically," said Fink. These include the globalisation of capital markets, a greater focus on ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... interest rates are falling. And right now, interest rates are down on the floor in the US, the UK and Japan and at multi-decade lows in other countries. And although the fed funds rate has no more room to fall, the Fed is still easing - quantitatively. ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... Group Asian leverage finance arm was shut down in November last year. Prior to that, Mason worked at JPMorgan for over a decade. According to Episcopal Life Online, the Church Pension Fund has been investing in Asian real estate funds since 2004 and ...

NZ govt to suspend NZ Super contribs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
The New Zealand government's plans to stop contributions to NZ Super for at least a decade could place the super fund under greater financial pressure in the future, according to one global asset consultant. Martin Lewington, New Zealand business leader ...