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Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... streamline fixed income related trades, bypassing some of the steps that are traditionally done manually. The new system also reduces the potential for errors and trade failures because trade information is not re-entered between trade execution and ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... features more readily accessible to novice-users, developers, and power-users. In turn, Progress claims the new offering reduces end-to-end latency of CEP applications five-fold with the introduction of an enhanced communications infrastructure. To help ...

Dimensional wins $100m Aust Eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... delivering a higher exposure to small cap and value premiums than in a market-weighted portfolio. "Owning a core portfolio reduces reliance on individual asset class strategies and provides targeted factor exposure that can result in lower overall operating ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... from the previous forecast of 1.5 percent as higher energy prices slows domestic spending and weakening offshore growth reduces exports. Today, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens will talk on the "Challenges for Economic Policy" at ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Logica has created a new software that helps prevent funds from being used by terrorists, reduces risk and provides cost-effective compliance for investment managers and banks. Tech company Logica recently launched HotScan Plus - an automated transaction ...

Schroders launches geared global fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... large number of stocks from up to 50 countries," he said. "Broad diversification across stocks, industries and countries reduces the risk of blow-ups from one stock and currency hedging is important to ensure that gearing doesn't magnify currency vol ...

QIC taps EMs with risk control

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... acknowledges EMs have traditionally posed governance, risk and cost issues for superannuation funds. QIC claims the new fund reduces the governance concerns of investing in these sectors. QIC director, international implemented equities Greg Clarke said ...

CFP and Fin Wisdom upload Provisio

... providing a 'knob' over most of the assumptions behind the calculations. The software also cuts the cumbersome paperwork and reduces the chances of data error by creating a Statement of Advice insert using Microsoft Word. "As a financial planner, I know ...

Boutique structures test volatile times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... steady fund inflows, boutique managers were protected from many business stresses. But a continuing market correction that reduces fund manager profitability could easily result in some boutique managers coming under pressure," he said. "This pressure ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... the CPI and average weekly earnings, this pension should move to the same index arrangement," said Crews. "This proposal reduces the defined contribution up front from 18 per cent to 16 per cent and it has reduced the reversionary benefit for surviving ...