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Cloud computing still a foggy idea

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... visibility and control of end-to-end traffic between the users and the application servers. F5 Networks is a NASDAQ-listed company that helps major businesses (e.g. Fortune 500) manage their application, server, storage and network resources by streamlining ...

AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... total staff of 141) in offices located in London, San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong. AMG is a global asset management company with equity investments in boutique investment management firms. The firm's strategy is to expand through the internal growth ...

Pengana hires QIC execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Former QIC executives Greg Clarke and Kevin Wan Lum joins boutique firm Pengana Capital. Greg Clarke joined the company to oversee its multi manager operations. Clarke is working to extend Pengana's strategies in the multi manager sector and will work ...

State Street gains Charles Schwab ETF admin

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
State Street has been appointed by Charles Schwab to provide custody, fund accounting, fund administration and transfer agency service to the bank's eight exchange traded funds (ETF). George Pereira, senior vice president of Charles Schwab Investment ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... portfolios. Blake Grossman, BlackRock vice chair replaces Waked effective as Global CIO, SAE, immediately. According to a company statement, Waked will remain at BlackRock until the third quarter of this year to ensure an orderly and successful hand-over ...

AMP raises Horizons intake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
AMP is increasing the intake to the Horizons Financial Planning Academy by 50 per cent to cope with demand. Tim Steele, director at AMP Horizons, said the bank is increasing the planner intake from 80 to 130 for the year. He said just under 200 financial ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Mercer is advocating investors move their global equities allocation back to benchmark weight for now as investment markets start to look fair value. The firm's January 2010 Dynamic Asset Allocation Market Valuation and Review, which the firm prepares ...

Life insurance consolidation could hurt consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... that large players with power can create reduced choice and impose higher prices for cover. Minto's comments came as the company announced its results for the 2009 year at its annual general meeting yesterday. The company reported a 10 per cent increase ...

Trio funds to be wound up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
PPB, the administrator of Trio Capital, is filing a court application to wind up six of the failed fund manager's funds following an initial investigation of the schemes. According to a letter from PPB, an application will be filed with the court this ...

Property developer gets jail sentence

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... of a property development by Rafferty's Group Pty Ltd and fraudulently omitting to pay the investors' capital to this company. According to an ASIC statement, Saunders assisted a number of investors to refinance their mortgages, redraw the equity on ...