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SEI Improves Managed Accounts Offering

Big Companies Choosing Hybrid Pension Plans, Says Watson Wyatt The shift to so called hybrid pension plans by larger employers appears to be slowing and perhaps responding to different motivations, according to new analysis from Watson Wyatt Worldwide.A third of

Big Companies Choosing Hybrid Pension Plans, Says Watson Wyatt

Big Companies Choosing Hybrid Pension Plans, Says Watson Wyatt The shift to so called hybrid pension plans by larger employers appears to be slowing and perhaps responding to different motivations, according to new analysis from Watson Wyatt Worldwide.A third of

Capco Says GSTPA is Not Dead But Undead

Red faces all round at post modern consultancy Capital Markets Company. Yesterday a company newsletter the portentously titled Institute Briefing on Operations and Technology Solutions let slip what everybody knows but nobody dares to say the GSTPA is no longer

Heliograph Votes for Omgeo

HelioGraph, the STop software house and a longstanding member of the Omgeo STP Partner Program, has now joined the Omgeo Central Trade Manager Early Adopter Program. Although HelioGraph's STP platform, TradeFlow, connects to GSTPA and other potential global STP solutions,

Ansbacher Appoints New Chief Investment Officer

James Stuart Smith has been appointed as Chief Investment Officer at Ansbacher, within its investment services division based in the UK. James joins the bank from Halifax Bank of Scotland where he was a Strategy Consultant. He will be responsible

MAN Extends Capital Guaranteed Range

Man Investment Products launch its latest capital guaranteed structured product on Monday. Man AP Strategic Series 2 Ltd ("Series 2"), which will be available in both US$ Class and Euro Class Bonds, aims to achieve medium term annualised growth of

Comptershare Completes Hong Kong Merger Round

Computershare, the Australia based share registration and securities trading technology foirm, has completed the merger of its Hong Kong share registration business with its rival, owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), the holding company of the Hong

Radianz Adds Archipelago to Its Network

Radianz today announced that Archipelago's network offerings will be expanded to include Radianz's global financial extranet, RadianzNet, to connect additional European and U.S. financial professionals to all of Archipelago's electronic services for trading stocks. The Archipelago Electronic Communications Network (ECN)