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Schroder Asia Pac adds SimCorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Schroder Investment Management has successfully implemented SimCorp Dimension across four Asia Pacific countries with its Australian office soon to follow. The system, which replaced a 12-year-old system and a number in-house applications, has been ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
China may be the darling of economic groupies, India the superpower in waiting, but realisation is growing that Indonesia may be their rocket fuel. Regional analysts have been so taken with the possibility that editorials around Asia are now spruiking ...

TPD tax changes could increase premiums: ASFA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Tax changes around the deductibility of insurance premiums for disability superannuation benefits has been criticised by one industry association that warns insurance premiums may rise. According to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The $13 billion HESTA is taking a new approach to measuring and remunerating Aussie equities fund managers by making them accountable for the tax implications of their decisions. According to a press statement by HESTA, the fund would be the first super ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... America's major equity indices. She perfectly timed her 'buy' recommendation on Goldman Sachs last reporting season on 13 July - one day before GS is to report its actual results - for maximum impact. And what an impact it created. Goldman scripts rallied ...

Bennelong wins AMP mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) has won a mandate to manage AMP Capital Investors' Future Directions Australian Share Fund's Australian equities investments. BAEP will manage 14 per cent of the Fund's portfolio. Bennelong joins AMP Capital ...

Count: 13 times lucky

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Countplus has settled its thirteenth acquisition - purchasing a 25 per cent share in Canberra-based advice firm, Achieve Corporation. Achieve, founded by Simon Mitchell in 2003, is a specialist payroll and advice firm and employs 23 people. There are ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
General financial market optimism and momentum defeated the curse of September this year. Recall that on the very first day of September I wrote that, "the line of least resistance is for history to re-assert itself." Id est, worries that September ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...