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Investment Strategy

NAB clinches $5bn mandate from Russia’s central bank

Russia’s central bank, which has $533.4 billion in foreign exchange reserves, has appointed National Australia Bank to manage up to 1 per cent, or $5.33 billion, of its assets in Australian cash instruments.

I & T NewsOctober 25, 2011

Investment Strategy

Liquidnet says institutional traders concerned about high-frequency trading

High-frequency trading is negative for long-only investors who make stock trades of considerable size, says a Liquidnet survey of more than 300 traders at asset management firms around the world.

I & T NewsSeptember 13, 2011

Administration

Pillar separates contribution and benefit functions

Pillar Administration is undergoing an internal restructure that will see the amalgamation of its client teams by function, reducing the total number of teams from 27 to 18 and affecting 400 people within the organisation, with the changes expected to eliminate “single points of failure”. The restructure, which began this month and is due to […]

Staff WriterOctober 2, 2009

Administration

Pillar separates contribution and benefit functions

Pillar Administration is undergoing an internal restructure that will see the amalgamation of its client teams by function, reducing the total number of teams from 27 to 18 and affecting 400 people within the organisation, with the changes expected to eliminate “single points of failure”. The restructure, which began this month and is due to […]

Staff WriterOctober 2, 2009

Investment Strategy

Three months after retrenching, Russell recruits to insto business

Russell Investments’ director of capital markets research has left the firm to return to academia, while a communications specialist joined the Melbourne office yesterday in a client-facing role just months after 36 people were retrenched from the Australian business.

Staff WriterJuly 13, 2009

Opinion

The end of the world is nigh … or is it?

The funds management industry is in trouble. Of that there is little doubt. Head count among the major managers has been cut by at least 10 per cent, according to a Watson Wyatt report last month. Among hedge fund managers, the head count is down an average 20 per cent. And the worst is yet […]

Staff WriterJune 4, 2009

Opinion

The end of the world is nigh … or is it?

The funds management industry is in trouble. Of that there is little doubt. Head count among the major managers has been cut by at least 10 per cent, according to a Watson Wyatt report last month. Among hedge fund managers, the head count is down an average 20 per cent. And the worst is yet […]

Staff WriterJune 4, 2009

Opinion

The end of the world is nigh … or is it?

The funds management industry is in trouble. Of that there is little doubt. Head count among the major managers has been cut by at least 10 per cent, according to a Watson Wyatt report last month. Among hedge fund managers, the head count is down an average 20 per cent. And the worst is yet […]

Staff WriterJune 2, 2009