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Macq bond insurance will diversify group

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Moody's said the move is consistent with the Macquarie Group's international diversification strategy. "The Group's diversity of earnings is a major rating strength. However it must be said that insurance hasn't been a meaningful business line for the ...

TOWER net profits up 81pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... capabilities and technology to support its target business platform," he said. "TOWER Australia also has strengths through diversity in key specialist life insurance product and distribution areas. The recent launch of the TOWER Accelerate solution is ...

BT and Asgard to lead platform market

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... operations will drive further investment in our back office processes. "Each bank's customers will also benefit from greater diversity and choice of products from both organisations," Kelly said.

Industry responds to APRA report

... retail funds may diminish investment returns while the representative trustee system - with its emphasis on independence, diversity of trustee directors and their mission to deliver all profits back to members - is paying off," said Fiona Reynolds, chief ...

Boutique structures test volatile times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... coming under pressure," he said. "This pressure is not just financial but could also result from a lack of management diversity needed in any business during times of crisis. Bryant said investors looking for stability and assessing investment risk should ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... business' regulator. "Our current regulatory structure was not built to address the modern financial system with its diversity of market participants, innovation, complexity of financial instruments, convergence of financial intermediaries and trading ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, is to launch a range of diversified growth strategies using both traditional and alternative asset classes. These strategies will invest across a combination ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... firms give us access to a larger number of managers to generate positive, long-term investment returns and reflect the diversity of the market." Leading Edge is a minority-owned emerging fund-of-funds manager who will allocate CalPERS' initial $161.3 ...

Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... these [unpredictable] occurrences can happen," he said. The Future Fund also professes the need to ensure portfolio diversity by understanding the exposure of every asset to a set of core long-run risk factors. Exposure to inflation, economic risk, real ...

Diversity pays in wealth management: CBA

Commonwealth Bank's wealth management business posted double-digit growth thanks to institutional cash mandates, investment returns and inflows into FirstChoice in the six months to December. The bank was not immune to the impact of the sub-prime asset ...