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Tower taps UK trends to upgrade insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... especially in the area of new business processes. "We focused on the UK, because that's a market that's quite similar to ours in terms of how products are distributed. "But also interestingly, [it's] a market that's gone through a large transformation ...

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... fees and the performance fees are higher... there's a big difference in fees between those and say infrastructure funds like ours, Lazard or Magellan," said Dell.

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...

Ban flipping arrangements: ISN

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... of the change. "[For example] some companies charge a fee for that [transfer] - it varies from company to company... but ours is very minimal," he said. The spokesman also said there was "very little difference between the fee structure between the corporate ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... working in reverse to allow our trading partners to catch up. We are buying more of their produce. In time, their gain would be ours too. The A$ is doing the task of tweaking economic settings to the new reality. The RBA could afford to wait...depending ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Watch the screens today! For at exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Aussie John cracks insurance market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
John Symond, the Aussie Home Loans founder who transformed the home loans market in the 1990s, has set his sights on shaking up another sector and this time, it's direct insurance. Symond, renowned for his Aussie brand of mortgage services, said he ...

CalPERS ploughs more into private equity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
The $231 billion CalPERS is putting more funds into private equity and global fixed income, but is raising its cash targets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said it is increasing the target allocation for its Alternative ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Investment management technology provider DST International has been renamed DST Global Solutions Ltd, to reflect a business restructure and a move towards providing software services, not just products. Starting this year, the group will have three ...