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Bravura promotes exec to CIO role

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
Bravura Solutions has promoted head of IT and hosting services Terry McCann to the role of chief information officer (CIO) with a global remit. The company said the move follows increased interest in its managed service offering from across the Asia ...

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Though barriers to widespread adoption still exist, the funds management industry must be well prepared for the impending pilot version of the Asia Region Funds Passport if the long-term existence of the scheme is to be guaranteed. That was the consensus ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following the lead of Wall Street which fell amid anxiety about a correction and worries that the conflict in Ukraine could worsen. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Macquarie Group has denied recent media reports claiming its advisers cheated on competency tests and exposed clients to high-risk investments, saying that it would refer the matter to the Australian Press Council (APC). In a statement on its website ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Is this it? Is this the beginning of the end? The start of that big one - the correction - that many have been talkin' 'bout, at the very least, since 2013 became 2014? Perhaps... maybe... possibly. For Houston, we have a problem! Oh sorry Houston ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Just when we thought it was no longer safe to go back into the water...... dip buyers again went buying the dip. We don't have to go very, very far back in history to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how ...

ASX meets with PRI to discuss sustainability reporting

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) managing director Fiona Reynolds has met with the Australian Securities Exchange this week to urge them to sign up to the Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative. The initiative, which aims to 'educate' exchanges ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
"Play it again, Chumbawamba"... "I get knocked down but I get up again..." Can't really stop those bargain hunters hunting for bargains on Wall Street, 'ey? Not even with the previous day's headlines talkin' 'bout the Fed saying that those bargains ...

UK has overtaken Australia for platform innovation: Bravura

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
Wealth platforms in the United Kingdom have leap-frogged Australian platforms because investor experience and utility is their differentiator, not the underlying technology itself. Darren Stevens, director of strategy at technology group Bravura Solutions ...