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Tasplan invests $21m in hedge fund strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... unrelated to the direction of traditional markets, sourced from a diverse range of classic trading strategies that are based on sound economic principles," said Gregor Andrade, principal at AQR. AQR manages more than $500 million in the DELTA strategy. ...

Investment managers gain fraud insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... is designed for firms that provide advice to customers. It covers the firm's responsibility to that customer to provide sound advice," said Dwyer. "It doesn't cover market risk." The firm's Investment Structures Insurance Solutions also provides very ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... strengthen and safeguard the financial system. A Financial Stability Fund, fully financed under the program, will ensure a sound level of bank equity." Strauss-Kahn said the reductions in wages and pensions are designed largely to exempt those living ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
It was about this time last year that a few of my closest friends were given the boot by their employers and told their services were no longer needed. It is not so much that they lost their jobs that worried them but the negative prospects that awaited ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Tobacco, alcohol and gaming sounds like a rock star life but investors in a fund that targets these industries aren't exactly crowd surfing their way to financial bliss. The US-based Vice fund identified stocks across tobacco, alcohol, gaming and aerospace/defense ...

ACCC sounds online fraud alarm

REGULATORY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Online scams continue to make up a large proportion of complaints to the ACCC - with online finance fraud growing in prominence, according to ACCC deputy chair, Peter Kell. During 2009, losses reported to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Super fund trustees must make sure they have the option to audit their administration provider's performance, at short notice, to minimise the risk of fraud, according to KPMG. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...

FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... FuturePlus spokesperson said. Editorial comment: Will a merger happen? On the surface, a merger between LGSS and EISS may sound logical. Both are government funds and already have their toe in the waters by both co-owning FuturePlus. They even share ...

HOSTPLUS pushes into GC retail market

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... services. "We foresee a local community of people learning about financial matters, talking about financial matters and making sound financial decisions," he said. The launch followed independent research commissioned by HOSTPLUS that showed face to ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... CalPERS doesn't see a shareowner advisory vote as a panacea, companies that adopt the policy will significantly advance sound governance goals of improved accountability to investors and the creation of long-term share value." CalPERS is the largest ...