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Managed funds have a place in SMSFs: Select

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... the fund managers is that despite the higher costs, the vehicles provide an easy option for exposure to a variety of derivatives, allowing hedging and capitalisation on market inefficiencies and alpha. "Passive management actually puts more risk in a ...

DST Global Solutions launches HiPortfolio upgrade

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... are looking to maximise value from their core systems with wider functional and asset class coverage. Support for derivatives and reconciliation processing as well as regional tax and market practice requirements, can help firms balance the need for ...

ASIC cancels South Australian financial services licence

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... Services (AFS) license, including the provision of financial product advice, and dealing in financial products including derivatives, foreign exchange contracts and securities. ASIC's investigation alleged the firm failed to carry out appropriate background ...

AMP lands first $30m mandate in new fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... period coupled with long-term growth by investing in stocks (developed and emerging), managed funds, REITs, bonds, derivatives and cash. The Western Australian Local Government Superannuation Plan, which has over 43,000 members and $1.5 billion in assets ...

Transparent social investment forum launched

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... sophisticated investment professional looking to exchange, monitor and validate investment ideas for shares, indices, derivatives, ETFs and other listed securities."

Derivatives broker MF Global in administration

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
Global financial derivatives broker, MF Global has been placed into administration with insolvency firm Deloitte appointed as administrator in Australia. MF Global, formerly known as Man Financial, provided exchange-traded derivatives, as well as over-the-counter ...

Citi mandates Fidessa for global derivatives platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... Citi has mandated UK based software provider Fidessa to deliver a workflow and trading platform for its global listed derivatives business. Fidessa will install a global order management and distributed low-latency execution platform as well as its integrated ...

Volcker Rule could slash Wall Street incomes 25%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... 25%. This would play out if investment institutions were prohibited from betting on stocks or trading the complex derivatives that drive most of the profits these firms generate. Legislators in Congress are meanwhile worried that the idealism in the ...

IFM boosts admin support for growing asset base

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... multi-currency, multi-asset portfolio accounting and reporting solution for the complete range of liquid assets and their derivatives. The combined single platform will provide these services to IFM in addition to complete audit trail, data integrity ...

Bloomberg launches derivatives compliance platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... launched a new trading platform to help institutional investors meet compliance needs when trading over the counter derivatives. The forthcoming Dodd-Frank Act regulations will lead to greater scrutiny on the over the counter (OTC) derivatives sector. ...