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More pain to come for councils

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
New South Wales councils may suffer more losses from their investments particularly those that have derivatives in their portfolios and not just toxic CDOs, warns an investment academic. Jerry Parwada, associate professor of finance at the University ...

QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more than 13 per cent per annum since inception and a one-year return of over 16 ...

Bravura tags FINCAD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Bravura Solutions has entered into a formal agreement to use financial analytics provider FINCAD's derivatives analytics solutions and services. Bravura has joined the FINCAD Alliance Program, allowing it to embed FINCAD's analytics library into its ...

Darling buds of May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... why May 2009 could prove rewarding for those investors who decide to stay. I pointed to improving dynamics - second derivatives they may be - in the big three economies (US, Japan, China) and how this is improving confidence in Europe and the rest of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... for the March quarter. Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Ric Battellino addresses the annual Securities and Derivatives Industry Association Conference. The Housing Industry Association will release its state and national Outlooks for the March ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings of a survey circulated in ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... global focus in terms of our customers," he said. Along with the re-branding, the group will also be developing OTC derivatives processing solutions, a service that the local arm haven't provided before. Fund managers and other wholesale investors with ...

Morgan Stanley adds to Sydney business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... years, Matthew Donald returns from the firm's Hong Kong office to take a senior role in the sales trading and equity derivatives division in Sydney. Sue Scott, another Morgan Stanley executive to return down under, was appointed sales trader and will ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... of this already. However, yesterday's releases showed that Japan too is responding to these improvements in second derivatives in the US and China. Japanese industrial production rose by 1.6 per cent in March - double market expectations and the first ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... expectations of 29.7. The April jump represents the largest increase since November 2005. More green shoots in second derivatives. The pace of decline in US home prices slows. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index fell by 18.6 per cent in the ...