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IML signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
Investors Mutual Limited (IML) has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), adding more than $4 billion in funds under management to the burgeoning responsible investment pool of assets. Tony Richard-Preston, IML senior ...

Age of the virtual super regulator

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... Commission, suggested that securities commissions worldwide can better avert further market disasters by pushing for more 'mutual recognition' arrangements. Examples of these are the mutual recognition arrangements signed between Australia and Hong Kong ...

Bravura partners with StorLife

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... London, StorLife will be used in Bravura's Rufus Global Transfer Agency system which tracks the accounts of investors in mutual funds, equities, cash and hedge funds. "The StorLife proposition replaces a legacy Write Once Read Many secure data storage ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... services to pension funds, corporations, insurance companies, foundations, religious orders, professional associations and mutual funds as well as to individuals.

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... Partners. For example, Thomas said that during the 2002 bear market, US investors withdrew over US$50 billion out of US equity mutual funds. But the panic selling couldn't have happened at the worst time because the record outflows coincided with the ...

Neuberger Berman pledges money guarantee

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... Treasury will guarantee investors US$1.00 per share for each share held on September 19, 2008 of any eligible money market mutual fund that participates. The cut off date is December 18, after which he US Treasury may elect to extend it for an additional ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Taking lessons from the past, a shock response from the world's major central banks in the form of big interest rates reductions - in the order of say 50-100 basis points each time - might assist reducing the magnitude and length of the coming recession ...

GESB Mutual names board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
WA-based GESB Mutual appointed its first board which includes a former executive vice president of Woodside Energy, Keith Spence and former BT Group chief economist and chief investment officer, Andre Morony. The remaining board includes Macquarie Bank ...

Putnam hoists money guaranty flag

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... Investors cannot sign up for the program individually. Putnam managed US$163 billion in assets, of which US$96 billion is for mutual fund investors and US$67 billion is for institutional accounts.

UN launches PRI think tank

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... amount of academic research that looks into the approach and beyond the questions of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual fund out performance. "One of the goals of this network is to provide academics and practitioners with a platform to collaborate ...