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New Aus Ethical CIO aids expansion strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Australian Ethical appointed former nabCapital managing director, Martin Halloran as chief investment officer to assist in boosting its exposure to the structured credit market and its push into the institutional sector. Halloran replaces previous chief ...

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
US based Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking extreme action against wild 'naked' short selling, issuing an emergency order that prevents the practice across a number of commercial and investment bank stocks. The order means anyone taking ...

Tax free pension not without trade-offs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
Retirees with tax free pension accounts risk missing out on certain super fund payments handed to their dependents, according to a financial planning expert. Rudy Haddad, ING Australia national manager of technical services, sales and marketing, said ...

CFA decorates Ambachtsheer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
The CFA Institute awarded Keith Ambachtsheer the James R. Vertin Award for his continued work in pension research. The award recognises research that remains relevant and continues to provide value to investment professionals. Ambachtsheer is a director ...

Finsia launches Career Portal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) takes another step towards addressing the country's talent drought when it launched a new service dedicated to those considering a career in financial services. Finsia has launched Career Portal ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Detect, deploy, execute - fund managers and super funds can now implement better real-time analytics and event management with Apama 4.0, a new complex event processing (CEP) platform. NASDAQ listed Progress Software Corporation recently deployed Progress ...

Quiet Market Activity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Financial market activity was relatively quiet overnight. In the US, the Conference Board reported that the leading index fell to 0.1 percent in June, matching the markets' expectations. This is consistent with weak US growth over the next six to nine ...

FPA rejects tax bill changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) slammed proposed changes to the Tax Agent Services Bill, declaring it could increase the cost of delivering financial advice and hinder consumer access to financial planning services. The proposed Bill requires ...

CFS GAM rides $1bn infra wave

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) remains bullish on domestic and international unlisted infrastructure assets after attracting approximately $1 billion in new infrastructure mandates in nine months. Although the firm would not ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
More signs that US problems have made their way into the UK came overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed ...