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Standard Chartered signs on SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Tech firm SmartStream Technologies has signed on Standard Chartered Bank onto its TLM Reconciliations system to create a global reconciliations platform. SmartStream said that Standard Chartered is hiring its services as part of an ongoing strategic ...

State Street extends PPF mandate

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
State Street and the UK's $4 billion Pension Protection Fund (PPF) have renewed and extended their relationship to include risk analysis. Martin Clarke, PPF financial risk executive director, said the scale and complexity of the fund's business structure ...

No fee rises until 2011: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
Hostplus is taking a lead in the race to low fees - the $7 billion industry fund has placed a moratorium on raising its member fee for its core and personal products for at least the next two years. Hostplus's decision to stop increasing its member ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
And the race is on -- the race to zero interest rates. The way major central banks are going, benchmark target rates could hit the big fat 0 before Easter 2009. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia's 100 basis point interest rate reduction early ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Roll out the printing presses. Cutting the Federal funds target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in ...

Linear launches enhanced MA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
Linear Financial has launched its version of the managed account that can invest across a range of asset classes at a low cost. The Melbourne based firm launched the Linear Managed Account (LMA) after the firm released a separately managed account (SMA) ...

Snowball FUA grows $700m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
Snowball Group's unwavering appetite for merger and acquisition activity remains consistent despite bad market conditions, adding $700 million in funds under advice in the past financial year alone. At yesterday's annual general meeting, Snowball managing ...

Affordable advice: yes we can

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Can financial planning firms roll out affordable advice at a delivery cost of just $300? According to Q Invest, yes they can. Q Invest, which has around $2 billion in funds under advice, said that it's more than possible for financial planning firms ...

Planners to behave like CFOs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
Financial planners should move to a model where they act as a chief financial officer (CFO) for clients, managing relationships with other wealth management experts to cater to all the client's needs. Martin Mulcare, Strategic Consulting and Training ...

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 ...