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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
NEW YORK - US stocks got a boost Thursday despite poor domestic economic data after major central banks joined hands to ensure US dollar liquidity to Europe's embattled banks. In positive territory for the fourth day in a row, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

New risk technologies shifting industry power

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
New technologies are empowering individual investors to assess the risk of their investments through institutions, as post trade management enables real time data on asset exposure. Large banks and other financial institutions have invested far more ...

ASIC opens dialogue with hedge funds

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
Greg Medcraft told the Alternative Investment Association (AIMA) Australian Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney that greater regulatory focus on the hedge fund industry is a post-GFC fact of life, but that it is part of a new dialogue. The new ASIC chairman ...

Bell recruits Bloomberg for risk and compliance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Bell Asset Management has implemented Bloomberg's Asset & Investment Manager's third party risk, performance and compliance packages in an upgrade to its portfolio management system. Bloomberg's Asset & Investment Manager (AIM) order management system ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
"The top priority is to avoid an uncontrolled insolvency, because that wouldn't just hit Greece and the danger that it hits everyone, or at least a number of other countries, is very big. I have made my position very clear: that everything must be done ...

Mandiri open for Australian insto business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
Investors looking to Asian opportunities invariably focus almost exclusively on China but Indonesian investment managers are making a case that their country is in an early phase of the economic development cycle and represents opportunities just as ...

J.P Morgan strengthens Treasury Services

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
J.P. Morgan Treasury Services has appointed a new head of treasury services, Australia & New Zealand and has made two senior appointments to its Southeast Asia teams. Nadia Schiavon has been appointed head of treasury services, Australia & New Zealand. ...

Super funds signal intention to delve into overseas property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Superannuation funds are set to plough $40 billion into real estate investments over the next two years, with plans to significantly raise their exposure to global non-listed property, according to new research. The study conducted by Russell Investments ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Australian shares were higher at noon, building on gains from early trade, with the materials and financials sectors leading the market. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 73 points, or 1.8 per cent, at 4,148.5, while the broader All ...

Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Anyone who thinks the Reserve Bank was about to cave into pressure for lower interest rates to take pressure of the AUD should read their rates decision statement from yesterday because it seems they were closer to lifting them than they were to lowering ...