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Back to basics key to planners successs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... and performance back to their business success. Head of Macquarie Practice Consulting, Liz McCarthy, said that during the GFC many planning firms had to divert attention from the strategic aspects of running their business, the impact of which is becoming ...

NY firm defrauds billion dollar CDOs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... Management, was alleged to have directed the activities, when mortgage markets came under pressure three years ago during the GFC. Priore and his companies also improperly obtained tens of millions of dollars in advisory fees and undisclosed profits ...

Allegro unveils second PE fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... a new fund to raise more than $200 million, targeting smaller mid-market private equity opportunities emerging in the post-GFC environment. According to a press statement, the new fund is called Allegro Fund II. The launch follows the firm's $300 million ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... locally. For example, while the paper concluded that many US pension funds were already severely underfunded even before the GFC hit, their funding gaps have been further compounded by taking on too much market risk. "Part of the current crisis for state ...

Super savings run out well before retirement: survey

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... reduces the number of years spent in retirement," said Professor Wilkins. The analysis, conducted on data assembled before the GFC dramatically reduced superannuation balances, found partnered retirees to be in much stronger financial positions than ...

Tide turns in industry vs retail fund performance

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... per cent to $1.26 trillion over the 12 months to March this year. Savings through super recouped some of the losses from the GFC, with total rate of return at 18.7 per cent in the year to March against a loss of 17 per cent the year previous. Breaking ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... recovery. The orthodox response would be to relax interest rates and increase fiscal spending. Authorities did both to counter GFC I. Now, they've run out of ammo. Interest rates are near-zero. And though they could turn their deficits into even bigger ...

Former DST Global sales head jumps to SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... Cheung is joing them fund managers switch back to growth strategies as opposed to their 'cost reduction' strategies during the GFC. "There is growing recognition in Asia that the right IT platform is an essential enabler of any business strategy that ...

Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... management of the portfolios," said Leanne Milton, head of fund research at Standard & Poor's. "As the industry recovers from the GFC and retires legacy products, structural changes justify our increased scrutiny of fund manager succession plans, which ...

HFA appoints new CEO

ASX RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... including Advance Asset Management, Stockbroking and Margin Lending. "The HFA Asset Management business has emerged from the GFC in much better shape than many of its peers and we look forward to capitalising on this foundation in the future," said Spencer ...