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All aboard SimCorp Xpress

... report quarterly as a listed company." While SimCorp is a relative newcomer in Australia, the group has signed some of the major players in the industry including Macquarie, Deutsche Bank and Schroders. Three months ago, it landed its biggest local contract ...

Interest rates not the only monetary policy lever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
With Australia's super system looking more and more like Singapore's every day, maybe it's time we also followed their lead in using contribution rates as a de facto monetary policy tool. The Singapore Central Provident Fund (CFP) is their A$100 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... higher after Citigroup Inc got a $US7.5 billion ($A8.6 billion) capital injection from Abu Dhabi, adding to confidence that major banks can withstand the mortgage market crisis. At 0812 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index ...

Watson Wyatt appoints ex-Intech CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... The consulting firm has scored a coup attracting Dougherty, whose industry experience nearly twenty years. He is also a major recruit after the group lost key executives Sean Henaghan (now at AMP) and David Neal (now at the Future Fund) in the last two ...

Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... This was due to securitisers' limited ability to issue debt securities during the September quarter 2007," they said. The major driver of the asset fall was the inability of securitisers to raise loans overseas. "The slowing of debt issuance and fall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... uncertainty driven by the Federal election passed and stronger metals prices created a sense of optimism that boosted every major market sector. The local market gained $33.9 billion in value, as the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 2.23 per cent or 141.2 ...

Liontamer lends weight to blue gold

Is water really an increasingly scarce commodity? Investment group Liontamer predicts that the shortage of fresh water in the future will drive the investment returns of listed companies that specialise in the 'blue gold' sector. Liontamer, majority ...

Falkiner poised for retail growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
After three years of establishing its business, boutique funds specialist Falkiner Global Investors, partners with Colonial First State global asset management chief executive Warwick Negus and flags a renewed focus on global equities. Negus becomes ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... here are privatised. In other words, it's not done by government, it is done by private enterprise." Just as many of the major super funds here are benefiting from scale, China will also benefit from the sheer number of its working population and because ...

AustralianSuper marks $30b milestone

... retirement savings of members. Silk cited strong investment performance and an increase in employer and member contributions as major contributors for the fund's FUM growth. Michelle Baltazar