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PE to re-build South Africa

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... of confidence and the lack of attention that the country has had is causing a lot of the difficulty." Gardner came to worldwide fame when the biography of his life was turned into a successful film starring Will Smith. In 1981 Gardner and his son were ...

Cambridge opens Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... local funds and managers for better global research and information services. This will be the firm's seventh office worldwide, adding to its stable of four US offices, and offices in London and Singapore. "The opening of an office in Australia and the ...

SWIFT protocols to slash transaction fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... slashed from an average $22 down to just 20 cents if they adopt the new SWIFTNet Funds protocols. SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, is the global co-operative for setting messaging standards governing how financial ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... half all hedge funds, at least one major bank and a "substantial percentage" of private equity firms in business today worldwide will cease to exist within five years, according to predictions made by GMO chairman, Jeremy Grantham. In his quarterly letter ...

More money on money

... management, have resulted in a significant increase in the importance of currency management strategies for pension schemes worldwide," said Collin Crownover, the group's global head of currency management. The local arm, led by Chris Loong, more than ...

Rich get richer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... Report. The report, conducted by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch and released today, showed there are now 9.5 million HNWIs worldwide and nearly 95,000 UHNWIs (people with over US$30 million in assets), with HNWI wealth growing by 11.4 per cent over 2005 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... cent, or 216.83 points, to close at 17,849.28. HONG KONG - Blue chips fell 0.45 per cent, tracking weak equity markets worldwide, as worries about the US subprime mortgage market weighed on global lender HSBC Holdings and lower crude prices prompted ...

IUS partners with CUNA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... business styles. CUNA Mutual Group is the leading provider of financial services to credit unions and their members worldwide though they also service other community based organisations. In Australia 90 per cent of the credit union are already using ...

Local banks face global assault

... Deutsche Bank tend to win major transactional deals because of their global reach. "As more and more corporates operate worldwide, their banking needs also shift from local to global," he said, continuing, "For example, in Asia, local banks are competing ...

QIC introduces magical management software

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... the end of 2007. Aladdin currently processes over $4.5 trillion in securities and derivatives for BlackRock clients worldwide. The implementation follows QIC's implementation of BlackRock's Green Package risk management reports suite over a year ago. ...