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RIMES and MSCI Barra team up

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Financial services tech firm RIMES Technologies is joining forces with MSCI Barra, an investment decision support tools provider by integrating RIMES SmartFiles into BarraOne - a portfolio risk and performance attribution platform. RIMES is a financial ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) signatories are using their collective $6 trillion investment might to persuade around 9,000 companies to sign a set of corporate social responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote ...

Essex County seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Aussie fund managers with a global equities expertise may apply for a slice of the $7.7 billion Essex County Council Pension Fund's $763 million global equities mandate. According to a public tender statement, the pension fund is looking to appoint ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Grant Samuel Epoch Shareholder Yield fund demonstrates the merits of free cash flow (FCF) based investing after it trumped other global equities managers in one of the roughest months in stockmarket history. No doubt the month of October will reveal ...

Lonsec approves iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) received an 'approved' rating from Lonsec. The Lonsec report notes iShares ETFs represent an efficient, liquid and cost effective means for investors to gain index exposure to different ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
The Australian equity market continues to follow the fortunes of its peers in America, Europe and Asia although economic and business fundamentals here are in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Hedge funds are outperforming global indices despite making heavy losses during the last month. The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index lost 4.85 per cent during September against the S&P 500 Total Return and MSCI World Equity indices which lost 8.91 ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
You call last week a sell-off, this is a sell-off. Wall Street is now more than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

BGI adds two more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) listed a further two iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs), providing Australian investors access to Brazil, Russia, India and China and the top 50 companies in Asia. The iShares MSCI BRIC provides access to more than ...