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Northern Trust lands QIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Northern Trust has formed an investment operations outsourcing agreement with institutional fund manager QIC following a comprehensive due diligence and selection process. As a custody services provider, Northern Trust will provide a broad suite of ...

Offshore fund managers tap Northern Trust

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... managers keen to expand their Australian presence are turning to the local investment expertise of global custody provider Northern Trust. "We have received great interest from European and US global asset managers chasing super dollars down here, those ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... handout that halted what was beginning to look like the start of a weakening trend on Wall Street last summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This freshly minted money's still in play and gauging from Big Ben's recent rhetoric, "Until we see a sustained ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... succumbed eventually. Sometime, somewhere... the road will reach a dead end. And when that is reached, their stronger northern neighbours (Germany, France and the UK) - the ones underwriting their debts suffer. And if they do, all of Europe goes. When ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... the economy (according to my observation, it lags the economy by 9 to 12 months). Having been through a "pause" in the Northern Hemisphere summer, it wouldn't be until the second half of next year that we'll see significant improvement in this stat. ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... economy is waking up from its summer slumber. This reminds me of Alan "the maestro" Greenspan's comments back in the northern hemisphere summer, "What we're looking at is an invisible wall, which we've run into here. Which, essentially, as far as I can ...

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... come from European investors in the last 12 months" Doherty said. Despite talk of a nascent recovery underway in northern Europe, particularly Germany, the locals appear to be looking elsewhere. "The Europeans look around their own neighborhood and kind ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... Industries issues new car sales for June, and ANZ Banking Group releases job advertisements data for June. In equities news, Northern Territory-focussed explorer Eclipse Uranium Ltd is scheduled to list on the Australian Securities Exchange. In Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Commerce and Industry business expectations survey for March quarter is due to be released. The budgets of the Victorian, Northern Territory and ACT governments, respectively, are due to be delivered on Tuesday. In companies news, Hutchison Telecommunications ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... by rising commodity prices. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced Tuesday it is paying $US100 a share for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $US34 billion ($A37.57 billion), lending some support to the market. But investors ...