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Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... after analyst predictions of an 8 per cent of bank assets figure to be set. According to Morgan Stanley and Nomura Equity Research, a number of global banks will have to raise these funds including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, CrA(C)dit ...

Singapore: the cloud computing hub

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... dominating financial services, Singapore is emerging as the cloud-computing hub for the Asia Pacific region, according to new research. Cloud computing enables a financial services company to access its IT applications through the web, on a shared data ...

Zenith expands research team

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Zenith Investment Partners has added two analysts to its research team in response to its growing business pipeline. The Melbourne-based researcher said the new hires were made to enhance the services it provides to existing clients, to address client ...

Aussies fear super balances

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
More Australians don't know how much they have in their super today than a year ago, research shows. The second annual Suncorp Life Attitudes to Superannuation in Australia Survey assessed consumers' concerns about having enough money to retire on and ...

Planners must follow insto go signal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... upside, an expert told 400 advisers and investors at an Asgard forum. Felix Stephen, manager of investment strategy and research at Advance Investment Solutions, said investors nervous of ongoing volatility should track global pension and endowment funds' ...

Perennial trusts retain ratings

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... extensive experience in both mining and the investment management industries and has been very valuable to the team's research on resource stocks, according to S&P. "We believe that his retirement is clearly a loss to the team but consider Brendan James ...

Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Camden-based fund manager Titanium Asset Management said S&P fund services' research on one of the group's funds contain "major inaccuracies", and has requested S&P to withdraw its 'sell' rating on it. S&P Fund services assigned a "sell" rating on the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... cent. Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to address the Westpac Research and Strategy Forum in Sydney. The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) is due to auction $300 million of Treasury ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... presentations. Colin Morgan, Zurich's general manager - Life Risk Australia, said the firm takes the issue seriously enough to do research that looks at the usage and understanding of social media in the adviser market. "This piece of research will help ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... significant weaknesses in the concept of asset-based fees as a means of remuneration for fund managers, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) in conjunction with actuary RiceWarner. The asset based paradigm ...