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BlackRock tops multi-sector review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... the funds benefited from portable alpha strategies that allow the manager to source investment strategies and teams worldwide while diversifying the active risk. Sheela Veerappan, analyst at Standard & Poor's Fund Services, said BlackRock is one of the ...

New era at Aberdeen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... Suisse imprint in our investment process has become stronger," said Paul Griffiths, the group's head of fixed income worldwide. "Aberdeen's expertise is centred more on credit and our intention all along has been to combine the best of both businesses." ...

BOBisms

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... many, many times before this year? Yes! You did! For this is the current theme doing the rounds in investment markets worldwide. But some needed BOB's assurance that this what is and what will before concluding that the risk/reward equation favours riskier ...

Finance firms power down to power up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... will emerge as a company's highest operating cost, second only to labour, in 70 per cent of all data centre facilities worldwide. In Australia, the cost of electricity is going up at a growth rate of 10 per cent year-on-year, an expense that can translate ...

Martin Currie hires BDM for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... and Hong Kong institutional business development at Vanguard Investments and, prior to that, he worked at Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Based in Singapore, Ee Fang will be responsible for client service and business development in Asia. He reports to Kimon ...

RBC Dexia launches unit registry

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... product's online capabilities complement RBC Dexia's existing unit registry system, which saw 10.9 million transactions worldwide on the platform in 2008, with assets under administration of $940 billion. The platform has 17,000 distributors across 100 ...

Charles River adds Nomura platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... strategies," said Sunny Chung, executive director, electronic trading services at Nomura. Charles River serves over 315 clients worldwide, including 19 clients in Japan, and more than 100 client sites across 14 countries in Asia Pacific. With 50 specialists ...

SocGen exec quits after insider trading probe

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... fraudulent dealings. The $8.2 billion wipeout - due to transactions by rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel - made news headlines worldwide and put a negative spotlight on one of the organisation's core business arms, its equity trading division.

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... company to Man Group in July last year. Man Group's sales and marketing team now provide the fund managers products worldwide. Frank Majors and Greg Hagood, as part of Willis Limited, the world's third largest reinsurance broker, founded Nephila Capital ...

ASFA to host Communications forum and awards

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... The Ivy in Sydney. Todd Greenberg, chief executive of the Bulldogs Rugby League Club, David Anderson, principal and worldwide partner at Mercer and Neil Lawrence, chief executive of Lawrence Creative Strategy are some of the keynote speakers at the event. ...