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Investors extending their investment edge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
Investors looking for higher and more consistent alpha are driving interest in "extension" strategies that integrate both long and short positions, following a trend already very strong in the US but now gaining ground in Australia, said State Street ...

MLC switches $65b custody contract to NCS

After more than two decades of partnership with State Street, MLC has switched its $65 billion custody and administration services contract for the MLC MasterKey platform to National Custodian Services (NCS). "With a custody services provider located ...

RBC Dexia ranked number one global custodian, again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services has been ranked the number one global custodian for the third successive year, according to R&M Consultants' 2007 Global Custody Survey. "This has been achieved after merging the two separate investor services divisions of ...

RBC Dexia expanding service range

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
RBC Dexia Investor Services is ramping up its service range and increasing the depth of what it offers investors, particularly by leveraging its alternative investments expertise gained in other markets. Brad Taylor, global head of hedge fund services ...

Canadian pension funds score 12.9 per cent

Canadian pension funds returned a healthy 12.9 per cent for their CAD$340 billion in funds under management in the year ended 31 December 2006, according to global investor services group RBC Dexia Investor Services. "With many of the world's major ...

Up and down the fee chain: Mercer

Mercer Investment Consulting has released a global study of institutional management fees that found which asset classes charge a lot and country-by-country fee differences. The key findings were that fee levels have remained stable since 2004 and ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent - the highest they have been since August 2001 and the seventh consecutive hike in the country's official interest rates. In the US, interest rate watchers will welcome the ...

S&P turns spotlight on gold diggers

Canada's stock exchange operator TSX and ratings firm Standard & Poor's have announced plans to create the world's first Global Gold Index. Riding on the commodities boom, the proposed S&P/TSX Global Gold Index will be based in Canada but will track ...

Daily economic update

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the official cash rate untouched at 5.5 per cent following yesterday's Board meeting. The decision marked the 12th straight month of steady interest rates since March 2005 when it lifted its key ...

Canadian pensions get leg up from energy: RBC Dexia

Canadian pension plans have posted an 11.7 per cent gain in the year ending December 2005 propped by the nation's energy sector, based on the latest survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services. The London-based pension administration and global custody firm ...