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Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

Proactive planners ease client concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Clients of proactive financial planners are less stressed about their asset allocation and overall portfolio after being sent educational material during equity market corrections. Chris Browne, Financial Design for Life senior financial planner, said ...

Praemium upgrades p-Desktop

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
Online portfolio administrator PrA|mium Limited has improved its services by upgrading its market data service p-Desktop to include Order Management and Portfolio Review tools. Full service broker Evans & Partners has been first to sign up to this extended ...

Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Algorithmic trading has traditionally been linked to trading orders and developing investment strategies - but the technology is now gaining traction as a way to catch white collar crime. According to John Bates, founder and general manager of Progress ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... Reserve policy has changed. Until recently it was hesitant, gradual and process-oriented. More recently, it has become proactive in response to the severity of the credit crunch and emerging evidence of economic weakness," said Richard B Hoey, chief ...

St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
St George Group has appointed David Curry to general manager of margin lending. Curry was previously St George head of payment solutions and held positions at Westpac, Rothchilds Australia Asset Management and Ernst & Young before joining the bank three ...

Becton selects DSTi

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... its investment management division. The incorporation of the HiPortfolio Unit Pricing is expected to facilitate a more proactive management of unit pricing and best-practice market discipline. Becton's head of funds management, Matthew Chun, said that ...

Q Invest targets professionals

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... their complex financial affairs," said Q Invest general manager, Bill Danaher. "This service will give investors a very proactive ongoing relationship and the ability to talk with an adviser over a scope of different things," said Trudy Heins, manager ...

UniSuper chief Byrne move to ACSI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... superannuation body. She leaves UniSuper in early March, and played a pivotal role in positioning the fund as a vanguard in proactive corporate governance through voting and engagement. "The committee unanimously endorsed the appointment of Ann Byrne. ...

Market plunge drives record margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Margin lenders CommSec and St George Bank made record numbers of margin calls on Monday night and after yesterday's All Ordinaries 409 point drubbing, with another record in the making last night. CommSec managing director Matt Comyn, speaking late ...