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IMAP elects chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP), the industry body for managed accounts professionals, has appointed Toby Potter, one of the industry's pioneers, as chair. Tracy Byrne, who helped establish IMAP, is stepping down as chair but will ...

Computershare to challenge industry incumbents

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Computershare is using its tried-and-tested template in providing top-line share registry services to shake up competition in the unit registry services market. Computershare has fully integrated its unit registry services for fund managers, friendly ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
Steady as she goes! The US Federal Reserve maintained its course as it tries to guide the US economy out of stormy waters. There we have it Virginia, the much-awaited, much speculated US Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting produced nada. By ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
The Dow's hold on that elusive 10K-point mark remains elusive. Perhaps it is the consensus' way of affirming that, indeed, the market has run ahead of itself. Wall Street slid further overnight with the Dow slipping further below the 10K mark despite ...

Quadrant wins marketing gong

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
The $450 million Quadrant Super has won an Australian Marketing Institute Award for marketing excellence in Tasmania. The campaign focused on promoting increased membership into the fund through relationship marketing. "Superannuation is not always ...

October - an E (entry/exit) point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
September 2009 bucked the historical norm - that of being the weakest month of the year for stocks - but October started with a bang that scared the thundering herd of bulls. My oh my, just imagine the extrapolations this could engender? Equities sold ...

F1 scandal forces ING to dump Renault early

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
ING has terminated its global sponsorship of the Formula One Renault Team early as fallout continues to dog the sport and the sponsors following the Renault F1 cheating scandal. An investigation into a plan to deliberately crash at last year's Singapore ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Since we're still into discussions of the alphabet these days, did anyone notice Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan mention the 'S' word last week? It was during his address to formally launch the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research ...

BOBisms

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
BOB has spoken and what financial markets heard was good. BOB, of course, stands for Bernanke, Obama and Buffet. But go back to yesterday's news and carefully read or listen to what the 'three wise men' uttered. Go on. Read again. Listen again. Was ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Chinese authorities don't just speak another language, the way they regulate their stockmarket contradicts the Western dogma too, and that's a good thing for long-term Asian equities investors. Michael Power, investment strategist at fund manager Investec ...