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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 $31 billion cash investments and Oaktree Capital Management and Sankaty Advisors manage its alternatives strategies. Advent International Corporation and Horsley Bridge Partners look after the private equity allocation and BlackRock Investment Management ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... Datamonitor's new report "Online Banking in the Age of Web 2.0" explored how banks are using Web 2.0 several years on since the advent of social networking sites. Rik Turner, retail banking technology analyst at Datamonitor and author of the study, said ...

Omgeo gives edge to hedge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... provided the IT support alone. The company said in a statement that its partnership with other technology firms such as Advent, BLOOMBERG AIM, Charles River Development, Eze Castle Software, Linedata, Sophis and Tradar to be instrumental in automating ...

New era for investment analysts

... it comes to valuing and sourcing investments. The way fund managers and super funds perform has been influenced by "the advent of a wide range of alternatives - hedge funds, long/short funds, infrastructure, private equity - and ways to manage portfolio ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

... billion of new wealth and China is generating between $350 billion to $500 billion in new wealth depending on estimates. "The advent of China and India in their renaissance will break the template of 1947, that is the policy adopted by the US to run ...

ING launches new tool for employer super advisers

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2006
... 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 program ...

A new frontier in asset consulting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
... Speaking at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Fiona Trafford Walker, of Frontier consulting group said along with the advent of new fund managers has come a host of new initial screens. "There are a lot more negative screens," she said, adding ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
... Speaking at yesterday's Rainmaker marketing symposium, Fiona Trafford Walker, of Frontier consulting group said along with the advent of new fund managers, has come a host of new initial screens. "There are a lot more negative screens," she said, adding ...

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 ...