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Media Super hires BNP for custody

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Media Super has appointed BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia as master custodian. BNP Paribas Fund Services acted as the interim provider of custody services for the fund so the appointment comes into effect immediately. Ross Martin, chief executive ...

WYPF tenders for custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
England's $9.2 billion West Yorkshire Pension Fund is looking for a new custodian. WYPF, the pension fund for employees in the councils of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale, is looking for a banking and custodial service provider. ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... Historically, super funds would outsource the investment selection decision to their asset consultant and then use a custodian to aggregate and report on the investments selected. These can be a variety of data including shareholdings, investment value ...

BNP Paribas tech boosts Asian ops

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... and will be supported by the same processes and procedures as those used in Europe and the United Kingdom," said the custodian. Some of these technology include Tradeflow for trade processing, an online portal for query management and Neolink - a trade ...

ESI Super appoints NAB as custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation Fund (Queensland) has appointed National Australia Bank as custodian of its invested assets. According to a May newsletter to members, the ESI Super trustee had appointed NAB as its new custodian, and said ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

J.P. Morgan extends link with ACC

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... deliver direct lending, compliance reporting and transaction capture services. Combining both the services with the one custodian should provide greater efficiencies across the ACC's operations and middle office environment, J.P. Morgan said in a statement. ...

Smaller funds lack risk reserves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... methodology. It's not just set and forget, we look at that each year as part of our mandate," he said. "We utilise National Custodian Services as our custodian and they undertake the unit pricing regime for us and we have our own internal controls to ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The financial crisis could bridge the gap between diametrically opposed asset managers with more hedge funds merging with long-only funds to slash operational costs, predicts consultancy firm Accenture. Mark Halverson, global executive partner, wealth ...

RBC Dexia tops custody survey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Canada and the "rest of the world" category in the annual R&M Consultants Global Custody Survey. Overall the Canadian custodian ranked third - representing the sixth consecutive year the company has occupied one of the top three spots in the survey. ...