Custody
Proxy voting: Holes in the system
Despite automation, questions remain over the strength of Australia’s proxy voting system
Rachel AlembakisApril 10, 2019
swift
Investment Strategy
Prime brokers price BT out of Asian quant play
BT Investment Management (BTIM) has shelved plans for an Asian equity quant product because it could not secure prime broking at realistic prices, leading to the departure of an executive who’d been investigating the business, but the manager will hire two people as it commercialises its multi-strategy Total Return Fund.
Staff WriterJune 1, 2009
Investment Strategy
JPMorgan WSS next to take up SWIFT Funds
In a global roll-out, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services ( JPMorgan WSS) will go live with automated managed fund transactions through the SWIFT network in the second half of the year, joining HSBC Securities Services, RBC Dexia and Vanguard Investments, who became cornerstone users of the technology in Australia last month. The transactions cover applications, redemptions, […]
Staff WriterMay 5, 2009
Investment Strategy
JPMorgan WSS next to take up SWIFT Funds
In a global roll-out, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services ( JPMorgan WSS) will go live with automated managed fund transactions through the SWIFT network in the second half of the year, joining HSBC Securities Services, RBC Dexia and Vanguard Investments, who became cornerstone users of the technology in Australia last month. The transactions cover applications, redemptions, […]
Staff WriterMay 5, 2009
Hedge Funds
White Outsourcing sees past IRESS, joins SWIFT
Accounting and administration provider to funds managers, White Outsourcing, has joined the SWIFT network through a service bureau solution.
Staff WriterJune 3, 2008
Investment Strategy
White Outsourcing sees past IRESS, joins SWIFT
Accounting and administration provider to funds managers, White Outsourcing, has joined the SWIFT network through a service bureau solution.
Staff WriterJune 3, 2008
Hedge Funds
Make the cheque for your funeral the first one to bounce
Admitting you are an actuary has probably never been a great conversation-starter at dinner parties, and the profession’s preoccupation with death and mortality tables doesn’t help. Visiting Australia for the FEAL Fund Executives Forum last month, one of Russell Investment Group’s most senior human abacuses, director of strategic advice Don Ezra, called for a name […]
Staff WriterApril 1, 2008
Hedge Funds
Make the cheque for your funeral the first one to bounce
Admitting you are an actuary has probably never been a great conversation-starter at dinner parties, and the profession’s preoccupation with death and mortality tables doesn’t help. Visiting Australia for the FEAL Fund Executives Forum last month, one of Russell Investment Group’s most senior human abacuses, director of strategic advice Don Ezra, called for a name […]
Staff WriterApril 1, 2008