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ETF services expanded with cloud

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Cloud technology is now driving full automation of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) lifecycle, with one global investment servicing firm introducing a solution for development of new ETF products. State Street's new TotalETF product offers integration ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
We're doomed (again)! Oh-em-gee! "IMF slashes growth forecasts!" This was the last piece of news I saw before I went to bed last night and started snoring. Yeah, yeah I thought. Sure, sure. Somehow it didn't give me the same nerve-wracking punch that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... growth data, while a successful French bond sale and gains in European stocks also lent support. However, the eurozone debt cloud continued to hang over trade as Friday's downgrade of nine countries, including France, was followed by a ratings cut for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
Australian shares are lower as warnings from two ratings agencies overnight wiped out optimism that Europe's debt crisis may be nearing a resolution. Monday's gains were wiped out after Moody's Investors Service said it would review the credit ratings ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
The Australian market is set to open significantly higher as world markets surged on a move by six central banks to boost liquidity for banks weighed down by downgraded government debt. European markets rose by over three per cent and Wall Street is ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
The Australian share market at noon was lower as investors remained concerned about the European debt crisis and awaited developments on the US economy. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 23.8 points, or 0.57 per cent, lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat. At 0641 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was UP one points at 4,182. In economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial markets) ...

LGS first fund to sign iqBoard solution

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
Local Government Super's governance now operates in the Cloud after moving to the iPad and signing with newly-launched trustee office solution, iqBoard, from The IQ Business Group's iqCloud. The first super fund to sign up its board governance to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street rose on news Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign once a new budget was passed. At 0829 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 56 ...

APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
Most superannuation funds earned positive returns at the end of this financial year for the second year in a row, thanks to a recovery in equity markets and higher fixed interest earnings over much of 2010/11. But, warns APRA, there are dangers ahead. ...