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Super Concepts scores $600m admin coup

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Self managed super fund (SMSF) administrator, Super Concepts, is to administer approximately $150 million on behalf of 154 CommSec clients, a deal signed four months after YourChoice clients, with $450 million in SMSF assets, also moved to the ING-owned ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Wall Street was at first content to wait while the G20 Generals fiddle but Citigroup's announcement of a 53,000 reduction in its workforce brought home the point that Main Street is roasting. After initially fluctuating between both sides of zero, the ...

BTIM seeks ESG credit reporting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
BT Investment Management's multi strategies team wants to broaden its analysis to cover each company's entire capital structure and extend its ethical fund's investment universe to investment grade credit. Robert Swift, BT Investment Management head ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
It is just fitting that the world leaders from the Group of 20 nations decided to meet on 15 November 2008 to hatch their battle plans for ending the global financial crisis. For on this very same day in 1920, the League of Nations also held its first ...

ASIC lifts shorting ban on non-financials

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is lifting its short selling ban on non-financial securities from Wednesday next week. This decision follows an extension of the ban last month. This announcement does not affect the ban on ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
Buying on news? Bargain-hunting? Attractive valuation? Crisis solved? Factor X? Whatever the reason, Wall Street see'd again when it should have saw'ed. US equities surged almost 7 per cent last night despite a plethora of more gloomy news. Below are ...

Mercer clients gain carbon tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Mercer is teaming up with environmental research firm, Trucost Plc to allow its clients to measure the 'carbon footprint' of their underlying portfolios. The tool is available through the Mercer's Style Research Portfolio Analyser (SRPA) that includes ...

Trader caught shorting despite ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
A Victorian-based trader could face more than two years in jail when he shorted certain stocks despite the regulator's interim short selling ban. ASIC alleged that between 28 May and 24 October 2007, Giovanni Spagnolo of Northcote, Victoria sold shares ...

UBS to launch infra fund next year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
UBS Global Asset Management plans to launch another international infrastructure fund next year after successfully closing its $2.1 billion International Infrastructure Fund to new investors. The firm's closed fund invests in OECD country infrastructure ...

Skandia adds online group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Skandia enhanced its platform to include online straight through processing (STP) group insurance, allowing advisers to easily and accurately provide the service without lots of paperwork. The system's STP tool allows advisers to track the status of ...