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Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... open to institutional investors only in Australia. Set up in 2004, Prisma Capital Partnersas is a joint venture between a group of former Goldman Sachs partners and AEGON USA Investment Management. The former AEGON team was joined by Girish Reddy, Goldman ...

Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... said Bates. "The technology enables them to detect fraud while it is in flight, so they can spot insider trading from a group of traders that are colluding with insider knowledge to buy across different trading venues," he said. Traders who "paint the ...

Investments for planners, by planners: Instreet

... team left Mariner. The venture is backed by Premium Wealth Management, which has funds under advice of $2.5 billion and a group of more than 50 financial advisers. Given the state of the markets, Lucas said they are looking to provide capital guaranteed ...

NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
National Australia Bank Group's boutique fund manager Northward Capital, has launched the division's first retail fund, Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust. The fund adopts a neutral investment strategy so that it can outperform in different market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
The Australian share market was higher at noon, led by energy producers such as Woodside Petroleum, after the price of crude oil rose overnight. Insurance Australia Group jumped after QBE Insurance Group revealed it had made a takeover offer for the ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
Australian residential property is overvalued and primed for a price correction, according the International Monetary Fund (IMF), meanwhile housing supply is in such demand that rents are projected to jump 50 per cent. The rental price jump predicted ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

... particularly with the big institutions and that's where Pentafin comes in," said Basile. Pentafin was set up in 2001 by a group of fund manager executives who decided that the market needed a better administration platform built on new technologies. ...

FPA to provide PI insurance to members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... integral part of our members' capacity to deliver professional financial advice to clients," said Bloch. According to Bloch, a group indemnity insurance policy would provide economies of scale benefits for its members. "The planners receive competitive ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge funds using indexing techniques developed by London Business School academics Bill Fung and Narayan Naik, and Duke ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Australian shares had surged by almost four per cent at noon led by banking stocks after the US Federal Reserve announced a $US200 billion liquidity injection into the financial sector overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained ...