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nabInvest buys equities start-up stake

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... founding members of the team include Nelson Wicas, previously with First Quadrant and Vanguard, Peter Ritchie who joins from Barra International and Ganesh Suntharam, formerly with Perpetual. "We look forward to partnering with Redpoint's highly experienced ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
US president Barrack Obama has defied critics who thought his climbdown last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

Plato appoints senior portfolio manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... quantitative stock selection models, alpha generation, portfolio construction and ESG research. Prior to SSGA, Kennedy worked at Barra and Merrill Lynch as head of equity derivative research - Asia Pac ex Japan. The addition of Kennedy to Plato's investment ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...

MSCI buys RiskMetrics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... services around half-a-dozen Australian clients on the risk side. "The RiskMetrics risk products will be complementary to the Barra approach and the governance business would continue to operate as usual, it's pretty mature," he said. The Australian ...

ERSEL selects RIMES for tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Italian and Luxembourg-domiciled asset manager ERSEL Sim S.p.A has selected Barra Performance on RIMES to service its performance measurement and attribution requirements. RIMES Technologies is a financial data integrator and performance solutions provider ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is again calling for Treasury to restrict the term 'financial adviser' amid a barrage of negative media reports on the planning industry. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA, said the term 'financial ...

MSCI Barra ups liquidity reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
MSCI Barra is proposing to review liquidity across MSCI Global Investable Market Index constituents across developed and emerging markets on a quarterly basis instead of half yearly as part of the firm's plan to deal with the credit crisis. In addition ...