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Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... distribution and product innovation opportunities within the global Aviva Investors Model. Falzon began her career at National Mutual/AXA in 1983, and joined Alpha Investment Management in 1998 where she was responsible for client services, business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... Ordinaries lost 49.7 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 5634.4. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Tuesday, as news that Washington Mutual Inc expects a large quarterly loss raised the spectre of poor results in the financial sector, while minutes from the Federal ...

SSgA appoints ex-Old Mutual exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
State Street Corporation has appointed former Old Mutual US executive, Scott Powers to president and chief executive at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). Powers replaces James Phelan, who returns to his role as head of international operations within ...

New CEOs for Skandia, Intech

... international equity teams, will head up Skandia's asset management arm, Intech. Both Gethin-Jones and Black will report to Old Mutual regional head of Asia Pacific, Steffen Gilbert. Ruth Liew

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... services such as Nordea Funds and Nordea Life & Pensions. In addition, JPMorgan will provide depository services to in-country mutual funds via Nordea's branches in Denmark, Finland and Norway. As a result of the deal, Nordea's marketing relationship ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... Terror-Free Index Series is also tradable and suitable for the creation of retail investment products such as ETFs and Mutual Funds." Companies excluded from the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free indexes were informed prior to finalising the construction and given ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
SecuritEase - the software provider that was falsely reported as responsible for broker Tricom's woes - suffers another blow when a new client, broking firm Tolhurst, opted to re-sign with its previous IT provider, GBST. In April last year, Tolhurst ...

Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... US report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience of US investors in equity mutual funds and found the index, on average, outperformed by 7.5 per cent annually over 20 years. "Inevitably market timers will lose ...

Hunter Hall extends Bravura deal

... and tax management functions. It is modular and can be used for platforms, wholesale investment management, registry and mutual funds, and custody. It is one of Bravura's stable of finance software applications including Sonata, Rufus, Talisman and Babel. ...

Changing of the Vanguard

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... Based in Pennsylvania, Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment management firms managing $1.31 trillion in US mutual fund assets and $369.3 billion in employer sponsored retirement plans.