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ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... deliver returns in excess of cash returns, a strategy that was viable in bull markets by trading cash enhanced financial instruments. "Ordinarily in normal investment conditions, financial instruments of this type can be readily bought and sold. "However ...

Forensic tool for private equity

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... become even more compelling for local institutional investors. "They are working with increasingly complex financial instruments within a difficult economic climate," she said. More super funds are demanding better performance data from their private ...

Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... follows news reports that US government officials are seeking to place financial services providers and financial instruments under a "larger regulatory umbrella" to provide more accountability and transparency. Minister for superannuation and corporate ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... the bond market. This is because closing the bond market would disrupt sales of corporate credit and other financial instruments such as interest rates futures and interest rate swaps. These instruments are priced relative to the price of risk-free government ...

Large instos to move admin in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... manager, explains that with increasing complexity on certain trades and rising concern about how certain financial instruments are valued, some fund-of-fund managers and potentially super funds are more likely to manage in-house those services they traditionally ...

Zurich fund awarded S&P 'five stars'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... impositions is minimal, such are the benefits of being proficient with the implementation of a variety of financial instruments aimed at protecting the funds downside risk," he said. "In what is certain to be testing times for managers that want to execute ...

SimCorp adds LexiFi modelling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... integration of LexiFi's technology means SimCorp can deliver complete and flexible solutions for complex financial instruments to its clients. The new functionality will be released with SimCorp Dimension version 4.3. Peter Hill, SimCorp managing director ...

The hedge that saves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... financial risk management tools relative to what they could have used given the available technology and financial instruments at their disposal. However, as longevity rates increased higher than anticipated, many went back to the drawing board to cover ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... address the modern financial system with its diversity of market participants, innovation, complexity of financial instruments, convergence of financial intermediaries and trading platforms, global integration and interconnectedness among financial institutions ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... country is also what is behind this. High net worth investors have surplus cash and have an appetite for financial instruments," he said. Religare's recent IPO closed 161 times oversubscribed.