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Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The $63 billion Future Fund's overweight allocation to cash has paid off in the first quarter of this year - losing a mere 1.81 per cent when many funds suffered double-digit losses over the same period. This result, combined with the 2007/08 year ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
While many retail banks have toyed with the idea of using social networking sites to draw customers, a new study found many are still afraid that linking up their online services to third-party content poses a serious security threat. Datamonitor's ...

Omgeo gives edge to hedge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
Omgeo has clinched more than 200 hedge fund clients, including the top players globally, after it developed a hedge fund offering which solves many of the headaches associated with administering middle-office hedge fund transactions. While hedge fund ...

New era for investment analysts

The unprecedented demand for alternative investments in the past two years has turned the world of the investment analyst completely upside down and has inspired the industry's leading experts to go back to "school" to teach the new rules. The Investment ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating told SIBOS attendees yesterday that China is a "very mixed place in terms of prosperity and opportunity" and dispelled some easy truths about doing business in a region going through an unprecedented growth spurt. ...

ING launches new tool for employer super advisers

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2006
ING has launched a tool to help its national adviser network grow their employer super business, which they tip to swell following the advent of super choice and the recent Federal Budget reforms. The tool is a business consulting, servicing and marketing ...

A new frontier in asset consulting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Fiona Trafford ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
New asset consulting frontier Kate Hage 315 Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers, it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's ...

Citibank's Agent Penny: licensed to teach

Citibank in Malaysia has stepped up to the plate with a forward thinking investor education initiative that uses a comic book character called Agent Penny to promote financial education among young kids. Not to be confused with the great 007 character ...