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Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Institutional investors looking for a buffer to their rapidly depleting portfolios are now paying attention to BT Investment Management's Absolute Return Currency Fund - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up ...

SimCorp upgrades risk mgmt tech

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... for credit derivatives based on FINCAD models. The software's client reporting and audit trails have been automated and the top level reconciliation functionality has been improved to ensure the investment strategy is executed using correct data. The ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... Obama's statement. Obama is trying to find a way to rescind AIG's contractual obligation to pay US$165 million in bonuses to its top employees - mainly the derivatives traders working in its troubled financial products unit. Reportedly this is just a ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
The recently combined wealth unit of National Australia Bank is on the hunt for new boutique fund managers and top quality advisers following last week's merger announcement of MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest. Steve Tucker, the new head of the ...

S&P launches carbon index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... tracks the S&P 500 and is rebalanced every quarter whereby stocks in the S&P 500 are ranked by their carbon footprint. The top 100 stocks with the highest carbon footprint, that won't affect the sector weightings of the S&P 500 by more than 50 per cent ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... all boats rose with the tide and sector volatility was low, active manager performance as shown by the dispersion between top and bottom quartile managers, was low and within four per cent sometimes," he said. "[But] this has risen and is likely to go ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... into a third day as investors took in stride a cut in General Electric Co's credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered GE's top rating one notch because of problems at the conglomerate's lending arm, but indicated it was not eying another downgrade. Many ...

SPAA awards industry's best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... the Professional Certificate in Self Managed Superannuation Funds was awarded to Nathan Baker. Slattery said Baker was the top student in the SMSF course run by Adelaide University. Tracey Scotchbrook won the Praemium Scholarship for her work in SMSF ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... some doesn't know it still exists. So when it re-appeared over the weekend, it had to be sensational. It was determined to top the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by coming out with a prediction that the global economy would contract 'for the first ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... $2 billion in proposed construction projects, has laid off staff, instituted hiring freezes and reduced faculty searches. Top administrators, including Etchemendy, President John Hennessy, and the deans of all seven schools, have taken pay cuts of 5 ...