Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 401 - 410 of 662 results for Michelle Baltazar

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
CommInsure has launched WriteAway, a new straight through processing platform for risk insurance that could provide financial planners with an underwriting decision within 20 to 30 minutes. The group said that following a review of existing insurance ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Financial services data in the clouds? You betcha. At least that's what Microsoft is going to do from early next year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey said the Government is creating an "800-pound gorilla" in the market that could drive up the cost of financing for the private sector over the next few years - particularly if more government bonds are issued to fund its ...

Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
For all the debate on adviser fees, the future of planners might actually hinge on their soft skills and how well they serve the most influential generation of our time - the baby boomers - predicts a planning expert. Paul McKeon, founder of a business ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
It will take the global hedge fund sector another four years to recover assets lost since 2007, but its year-on-year growth will be faster than that of the managed fund sector, new research shows. According to Cerulli Edge, global hedge fund assets ...

Beware the tiny URL

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Online criminals are leaving no virtual stones unturned - targeting finance professionals who are Twitter-happy as their next victims. The popularity of Twitter has given rise to so-called tiny URL links, often used in Tweets to refer to articles or ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... inexpensive advice about their super. "The relief will mean super funds can offer simple advice over the phone," said Michelle Dolin, chief executive at GESB. Industy body ASFA, which represents super funds, welcomed the move and highlighted that for ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Volatility is not just a market barometer of investor sentiment, it is an emerging asset class too, said a fund manager that has amassed $5.8 billion on volatility strategies since 1999. French fund management giant Credit Agricole Asset Management ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Pengana's Asian Equities Long Short fund gained 22.5 per cent, net of fees, in the year to June against its benchmark's loss of 6.1 per cent - proof that even in the worst of times, fund managers that make the smart calls can deliver. Not many fund ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
While the worst of the liquidity crisis seems to be behind us, one fund manager focuses on "quality" stocks even as latest market data shows that some investors are rotating out of the defensive sector too soon and too fast. Rob Gensler, portfolio manager ...