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US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... stronger company, whose 1,300 global analysts are sharply focused on the quality, independence and transparency of S&P's research and analytics." McGraw also welcomed Peterson to the new position. Prior to his current role, Peterson was chief executive ...

BTIM names new port specialist

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... specialist and account manager as the group moves to strengthen relationships with dealer groups, advisers, and fund research. Former senior manager, Strategic Development at BT Financial Group, Dale Pereira has moved into the portfolio specialist role ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... Reserve will offer new stimulus measures to kick-start the sluggish American economy. GFT Forex director of currency research Kathy Lien said the speculation about a third round of stimulus from the Fed encouraged traders to buy high-risk, high-yielding ...

UK pension liabilities bigger than the bank

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... or 115% of its 23.3 billion market capitalisation, according to the August UK Bank Pensions report by Citi Investment Research & Analysis. Barclays came second with liabilities of 21.8 billion or 96% of its 22.8 billion market cap. Royal Bank of Scotland ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Research house Lonsec expects product providers to move towards frontier markets such as Africa and small cap Asian equities, as emerging markets become more mainstream, a senior analyst said today. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst for Lonsec ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... GIC Asset Management, a subsidiary of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. She also worked as a director of fixed income research at Barclays Capital, where she developed the firm's US inflation-linked securities strategy. The global wealth management ...

Zenith secures two advice firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Zenith Investment Partners has secured two new advice practices and their offices to its primary research provider lists. Zenith was selected as the national research provider for RetireCare Personal Wealth Management advice firm and its four offices ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to date US recessions over the weekend and finding that there's no cause for ...

Super funds need modern platforms to disclose holdings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... disclosure requirement by international standards. Quarterly disclosure is considered to be world's best practice, the research house said. Global platform provider SimCorp, which services up to 70% of the European institutional market including Alliance ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The next wave of advisory firms will be provide clients with customisable advice that is original, scalable and network connected, say US advice industry researchers. In their paper, The Consumer Revolution - Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Tectonic ...