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SimCorp scoops Vendor of the Year award

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Financial services software provider SimCorp bags a top award for its new module, XpressInstruments, which allows fund managers to better track and analyse structured products and exotic instruments. US trade publication Operations Management awarded ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Active managers are paid to make big calls outside the benchmark and fund manager Nicholas Applegate did just that before the bottom fell out of Wall Street. Pedro Marcal, who is second in command to US-based chief investment officer and managing director ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Colonial First State, ING and APN Funds Management have joined the ranks of the country's leading mortgage funds that have suspended redemptions in the wake of the Government's guarantee on banking deposits, locking up more than $6 billion of investor ...

Former Virgin Money execs launch Mozo

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Five former executives at Virgin Money, including former head Rohan Gamble, have resurfaced in a new online financial services outfit called Mozo. Mozo, short for Money Zone, allows consumers to compare financial products online, from credit cards to ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Grant Samuel Epoch Shareholder Yield fund demonstrates the merits of free cash flow (FCF) based investing after it trumped other global equities managers in one of the roughest months in stockmarket history. No doubt the month of October will reveal ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Call it the financial crisis that launched a thousand Facebook sites. The Web 2.0 has spawned Depression 2.0, a social networking site where individuals discuss a return to the Great Depression of the 30s. Financial planners and fund managers who want ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
The Chilean Pension Fund Administrators' Association (CPAA) urged its young members not to reduce their allocation in equities in favour of fixed income in the wake of the global financial crisis. CPAA, the umbrella body representing the equivalent ...

AMP hit by lower discretionary contributions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The September quarter cashflow report from AMP is the latest set of data to show that Australians are feeling the pinch, with many reducing the amount of their discretionary contributions in the last three months compared to the same time last year. ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Health Super's chief investment officer Brendon Shepherd is leaving the fund end of this year. Shepherd has been the CIO of the $7 billion-plus fund for over five years. A statement from the firm said that he is taking time off next year to spend with ...

Fund trades under super watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Research consultancy group Inalytics has come up with a way to monitor and evaluate how fund managers are reacting to the current market crisis, giving super funds a new tool to figure out who made the best and worst calls. Inalytics has launched what ...