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Aladdin combines FI and eq

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The next decade will see a consolidation of investment management information systems, leading to toolsets capable of dealing with all asset classes, a prime example of which is BlackRock's Aladdin fixed interest platform. Nigel Allfrey, managing director ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Over the next decade, exchange traded funds (ETFs) could put management fees of many Aussie fund managers under pressure - marking ETFs as the next boom market for fee-for-service planners. Bruce Baker, director of Queensland-based Puzzle Financial ...

Local funds hold firm on US equities

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... firm on their exposure to US equities despite the Dow Jones Index slipping below 7,000, its lowest level in more than a decade. Melbourne based investment consultancy, JANA Investment Advisers head of investment outcomes, Ken Marshman, said the firm ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Research by Rice Warner Actuaries argues this method could save the industry $14 billion in administration costs over the next decade. Rosenthal said the virtual model has other benefits as well, especially for small business. "Using this process, the ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... Australia's remains relatively resilient. Recall that the Australian economy continued to move forward during Japan's lost decade in the 1990s. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the Asian financial crisis of 1998 spread to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The Australian share market has received no leads from the US, with Wall Street closed for a public holiday. At 0737 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was two points higher at 3,500. In economic news today, the Reserve ...

Boutiques wary of automated systems

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... automation - particularly in the areas of processing and information exchange - should have been implemented more than a decade ago. However, boutique fund managers have shown a surprising lack of commitment to convert Australia's manual processing landscape ...

Former BHP chief makes history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Temasek Holdings has appointed Charles "Chip" Goodyear as the new chief executive of the company, making him the first foreigner to run the Singaporean sovereign fund giant. Goodyear, who retired from BHP Billiton in January last year, joined the Temasek ...

Vanguard CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... Australia, in the sense that he's being reviewing, researching, working with external fund managers for the most part of a decade, and has been responsible for $US240 billion." According to Bowerman, the funds that the portfolio review group monitors ...