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AllianceBernstein awards State Street $300bn global mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
AllianceBernstein has appointed its investment operations outsourcing services, valued at over $300 billion in client assets, to State Street Corporation which will include servicing the Australian and Asian operations of AllianceBernstein. Building ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
The Grinch may be stealing Xmas from Europe but Santa Claus is coming to town in America. Yes folks, we're still so many sleeps away from the 12 days of Christmas but I'm already on Christmas countdown - I'll explain why later. And yes to you too gentle ...

Mid-sized licensees to disappear: CoreData

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
Mid-sized financial planning firms will be "swallowed up" by opportunistic licensees as the rate of acquisition will rise while new forms of advice will reign, according to a research paper from CoreData. In its "Licensee of the Future" white paper ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... eighth, and Europe's third largest economy must make savings of just over 59 billion euro in order to get the country out of the red by 2014. Austerity measures include an increase in VAT from 20% to 21%, a rise in petrol costs, selling off state property ...

ASX's PureMatch gets ASIC green light

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
ASIC has given regulatory clearance for the launch of ASX PureMatch, the new high speed/low latency order book for trading the most liquid ASX-listed stocks and domestic exchange traded funds (ETFs). The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has now ...

Investment the way of the future, says ANZ chief economist

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
The demise of Europe, the rapid incline of Chinese growth and where Australia stands in all of this, were key topics of discussion for economists at the ASFA conference. According to Mark Thirlwell, director of international economy program, Lowy Institute ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
The weekend is coming - another worry weekend. For about 3 weeks running, European policymakers have kept us hanging and guessing about what lies ahead the Monday after. Consider this: We spent the 22-23 October weekend worrying over France and Germany's ...

Illiquid assets boost returns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
Illiquid investments are favoured by not-for-profit funds with strong cash flows and when such assets are managed properly they result in higher investment returns, reveals new research from superannuation regulator APRA. In a research paper released ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... cents at $49.00, while NAB was up two cents at $25.21 and ANZ was 11 cents firmer at $21.13. The major miners were also in the red - BHP had slipped 20 cents to $37.75, while Rio was off 62 cents at $69.35. On a positive note, information technology ...

APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
Most superannuation funds earned positive returns at the end of this financial year for the second year in a row, thanks to a recovery in equity markets and higher fixed interest earnings over much of 2010/11. But, warns APRA, there are dangers ahead. ...