The FeedRoom Acquires ClearStory Systems
The FeedRoom, provider of online video solutions for media companies, corporations and government agencies, announced that it has completed the acquisition of ClearStory Systems, a digital asset management ... range of digital marketing assets including graphics, documents, and multimedia. The combination [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 17:45:46
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MUFG buys 9.9% stake in Aberdeen (pfblogs.org)
Mitsubishi UFJ Group has bought a 9.9% stake in Aberdeen Asset Management, the Scottish fund manager, as part of a strategic alliance with Japan’s largest financial group. The purchase is being made through Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, a subsidiary of MUFG that will have exclusive rights to distribute [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 00:47:04
TOPWRAP 1-Japan eyes bank injections to counter crisis
Japan is reportedly considering cash injections for scores of regional banks in an effort to encourage lending as the financial crisis creates havoc ... , a fund manager of Paradigm Asset Management in Taiwan. “This round of rebound is based on ample [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 06:09:45
A modest proposal for an IT bailout
A modest proposal for an IT bailout Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 9:55 am Categories: General, Business ROI Tags: Asset, Information Technology, SOA, IT World, Asset Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Operational Planning ... . And interesting approaches — cloud, Web services, SOA, virtualization, open source — [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 17:55:39
UTI woos overseas Indians with new gold, equity-based fund
Even as the world grapples with a financial crisis, ... asset classes that they can add to their portfolios," Harsha Upadhyay, fund manager and vice-president of UTI Asset Management Co, said in the statement. "If one of your primary objectives is to earn [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 11:38:09
Korea's Pension Fund to Cut Stock Investment in 2009
South Korea's National Pension Service, the nation's biggest investor with 225 trillion won ($176 billion) ... conditions,'' said Lee Jin Woo, a fund manager at KTB Asset Management Co. in Seoul, which oversees ... .'' The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has slumped 45 percent in 2008, the worst annual performance in its two-decade [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 07:04:56
Nancy Killefer!
Nancy Killefer! Posted on January 7th, 2009 in Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama by lalate PHOTOS! ... Service, prepared Treasury’s systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset management program across the Treasury Department. After returning to McKinsey in 2000 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:15:09
Nancy Killefer Biography
Nancy Killefer is a senior director in the Washington, D.C. office of McKinsey & Company, Inc ... Treasury's systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset ... on a full range of management issues including strategy, organization, marketing and systems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:56:00
Realty Market Recovery Hinges on Lower Rates
Posted by paragjani on November 25, 2008 Recovery in the Indian property market in the next six months hinges on lower home-loan rates to entice ... , who manages $2 billion for India Opportunities Fund as the managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 10:48:53
Wiping out my savings is one thing. Wiping out Bubbie and Zadie's is something else entirely
the now-famous video of me and Madoff and his employee Josh Stampfli misses ... hedge funds out of their hip pockets, do you? Very few people knew how big Madoff's money management ... of their largest funds' assets under management. Then ask yourself, why would the world's largest [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 12:04:47
Southeastern Asset Management: 10 Reasons to Be Bullish on Stocks
In their quarterly update to shareholders, the folks at Southeastern Asset Management offer ten reasons to be bullish on stocks: " ... something that has occurred only two other times, in 1938 and 1939, since tracking began in 1926 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 07:22:03
Open Text continues acquisition trail, gobbling up MAM vendor
On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, ... of media asset management vendor eMotion. eMotion's prior caretaker was Corbis, famous ... . As we learned in our research for The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, there's few [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 14:38:00
Asian Stocks Decline, Wiping Out 2009 Gains; Lenovo, BHP Slump
BLOOMBERG Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks declined, wiping out the benchmark index’s 2009 gains, ... Kong-based vice president of investment services at JPMorgan Asset Management Ltd., which manages ... Group Ltd. plunged 22 percent after China’s biggest personal-computer maker forecast its first loss [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 03:20:08
Compute Your Net Worth Once a Year
The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management ... . Compute your net worth by creating four lists. Liquid assets: An asset is something you own that has significant value. A liquid asset can be sold in a matter of days. Include personal bank accounts [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 17:34:21
Bartronics India
The IT hardware and software segment sports many stocks that are at ‘attractive’ valuations ... in the areas of logistics and inventory management, time and attendance management and asset tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 02:58:00
When investments become trades
This resonated with me, and I thought it was worth reprinting in it’s entirety, ... investment officer at Al Frank Asset Management, who owns shares of Dryships. “Our objective is to double ... Steven Wolf, managing director of investments at Source Capital Group. But bear markets, particularly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:33:46
Realty Market Recovery Hinges on Lower Rates
Recovery in the Indian property market in the next six months hinges on lower home-loan rates to entice first- time buyers ... for India Opportunities Fund as the managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 03:33:51
Realty Market Recovery Hinges on Lower Rates
Recovery in the Indian property market in the next six months hinges on lower home-loan rates to entice first- time buyers ... for India Opportunities Fund as the managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 09:51:23
Reduction in property prices and home loan rates could boost Indian Real estate Market
DLF, India’s biggest real estate developer, said a recovery in the property market in the next six months hinges on lower home loan rates to lure ... Fund as managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia in Singapore and holds DLF shares. “ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 06:31:00
AIG to pare itself down
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The beleaguered insurance giant AIG announced plans Friday to hold on to its property and casualty insurance businesses, ... its aircraft leasing unit, asset management division, retirement services and U.S. life insurance ... and nimble after the asset sales. –From CNNMoney.com’s Tami Luhby and Aaron Smith [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 19:41:53
Bay Street Buzz
This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.: “Union Securities has picked up several new bodies ... Quenneville has moved to Institutional Sales. Stephen Brode returns to Toronto to join Ark Fund Management as Vice President, Sales & Marketing. He was most recently at TD Asset Management as Regional [more...]
Date: 2008-08-23 23:50:40
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 13 January 2009
FINTAG COMMENT Naughty children. Bad parenting is caused by not following up threats with actions, or praise with chocolate ... SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh based independent fund management group, says its SVM Highlander [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 15:10:19
Simon Treacher is innocent
It was "recent." It was "limited". And it resulted in "no material impact" on the net asset value of BlueBay Asset Management's emerging market total return fund. Yes ... that BlueBay's EM fund is down 53 per cent year-to-date.... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 09:00:11
SAP Job Hunting - Knowing The Interview Questions For Preparation
Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, it is fundamental that you recognise certain essential matters on it before yougo for the interview ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is practiced in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:52:02
Celebrating Sechin
In about an hour, we are expecting a foregone conclusion during an award ceremony to crown deputy prime minister Igor Sechin as ... and foreign asset management companies working in Russia has been around since 2000, and includes ... if the Association hasn't developed a new, uniquely Russian ("sovereign") definition of its stated [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 16:03:47
Take it to Tasks: Optimising Your Outlook, Part 2
Tasks in Outlook are a strange fish; so many people see them and think they’ll be a great asset in managing their day-to- day workload, ... management tool. There are 3 things all tasks (whether created from an email or not) should have in them [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 02:08:37
General Motors (GM): Still A High-Risk Profit Play
GM is essentially already bankrupt, says Horacio Marquez. And it has been for years. This clearly makes the company one to avoid for investors ... . It was October 2000, and I’d just joined a multi-billion-dollar asset management organization as its head ... , particularly after recently reading that JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) credit analysts [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 14:35:29
The Truth About Living Trusts
There are several ways to handle your estate. Intestacy — dying without a will — is an option for some people with relatively simple finances ... of a will and a financial power of attorney — can offer additional asset-management muscle both while you’re ... . For others, a will can be a useful tool to take care of giving away your goodies — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:57:18
Vibrancy in the ECM market
The ECM world is dominated by EMC, Open Text, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle -- all big vendors with equally big publicity machines to keep their brands ... planned application for mid 2009 in Digital Asset Management. Why is this interesting news? Well Nuxeo ... -driven framework/platform approach to software. Added to this sign of corporate maturity (packaged [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 15:06:00
The Ethics of Revenue-Sharing: An Oxymoron? By Richard J. Gladney and Sydney LeBlanc
Whose Best Interest is Served? For all of us in this business, the challenge to capture more assets and gather new clients is paramount, particularly for those who are just entering the asset management arenas. By aligning yourself ... . But if you accept a referral from a CPA, for example, who needs total wealth management which may include [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:36:54
Links 12/15/08
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest Science Daily For feds to bail out Cerberus is the 'epitome of ignorance' TCPalm (hat tip reader Steve) ... has been plagued by penny wise, pound foolish cost-cutting. Asset Management Holiday Sale: 60% Off ... ? Apparently not. Sovereign loss funds … Brad Setser OPEC Races to Get Ahead of Declining Oil Demand Wall [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 09:53:27
DAM vendor ClearStory to be acquired?
At recent Henry Stewart DAM conferences a couple of ClearStory Systems customers mentioned to me that they have been contacted by a potential ... . As Digital and Media Asset Management Report readers know, ClearStory provides a well-regarded, SaaS-based (hosted) DAM service, but the company itself has suffered various management problems over [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 20:00:00
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup GuardRFID and AppLocation intro RTLS for supply chains; Confidex unveils new EPC Gen 2 label; ... ; ODIN tests passive RFID tags for asset tracking. Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu Military ... are evaluating RFID to improve asset management, but they should also consider improving the way [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 01:13:41
pTools plans European expansion on back of digital asset deal
Irish content management software house pTools is projecting European growth plans after striking a vital partnership with digital asset management (DAM) technology leader Equilibrium. [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 13:23:00
FT 4th January 2009 -Building wealth with tens of thousands of small accounts
The article below provides another practical example of microfinance, ending with the following paragraph: ... was as a gofer at Raffeisen Capital Management in Vienna. Although he was not a trainee portfolio manager, he asked the right questions. Twenty-three years later Seiler Asset Management looks after [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 03:53:40
Church of England puts faith in Al Gore’s investment arm: CEN 12.30.08
The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, ... in 2004 by Mr Gore and David Blood, former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and had almost ... firm, Generation Investment Management. On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:25:18
Stubborn Market Rates Improve Slowly
Is the Fed getting anywhere? As the slide-rule committee prepares to reduce the interest-rate target, most likely to 1%, it, ... a great deal of stress in the system,” says Jane Caron — chief economic strategist, Dwight Asset Management. “I think we’re still well above levels that would provide comfort.” She notes the difference [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 14:45:45
Free DAM - Part 2 (Digital Asset Management on the cheap)
OK - so about a month ago I posted a concept about how to use Wordpress as a DAM (Digital Asset Management system). I felt pretty good about things - but have been thinking [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 01:34:08
Spime Watch: Vibration Energy Harvesting
http://www.perpetuum.co.uk/home.php?page_id=1 (((Put it next to a rattling piece of badly tuned machinery and it turns the clatter into current ... for many industrial applications; such as Asset Tracking & Management, Process Monitoring, Plant ... to power sensors, micro processors and RF systems, enabling critical performance data [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 10:39:48
DAM firms disappearing
I found this article in eWeek really interesting: Midmarket Digital Asset Management Firms Disappearing Companies are drowning in content they generate, usually with no way to organize it. Furthermore, as the article states, there is less and less support for SMBs, who can’t spend a fortune on software. Normally new firms would enter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 15:28:49
Japan’s temporary workers in the cold
TOKYO, Japan – The 61-year-old construction worker had walked by these sorts of people before: Bums he always quietly called them ... ,” says John Vail of Nikko Asset Management. “You hear numbers like a 9 or 10 percent unemployment ... to rise quite significantly. People will be losing their jobs; companies will restructure.” Restructuring [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 14:39:43
Citibank to sell is brokerage business
Jump to CommentsCitigroup Inc.’s brokerage business is reportedly for sale as the giant bank tries to recover from a near-collapse that’s left it on government life support. Citi is in talks to sell its Smith Barney brokerage unit and its asset-management business, according to The Wall Street Journal. One option being seriously considered [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 15:24:19
5 Steps to Simple Social Network Job Searching
Photo credit: Leo Reynolds This is a two-part guest post series by Nathan McGee ... help from my friends.” When you are on the job hunt, your “friends” can be a vital asset ... Management position at a fantastic company. Let me know if you have any leads!” Don’t forget the classic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 15:25:20
Investdayeasily - Www.investdayeasily.com
i'm not this program admin.... We are a team of skilled professionals with years of experience in the traditional and online business world ... of philosophies to create winning asset management results. We combine parts of proven investment theories from value, growth, income and hedged investing to generate superior returns. Profits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 06:34:11
How To Land The Perfect SAP Job - Preparing For The Interview
by William Cook Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is practiced in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 10:05:18
Boston CFUG meeting: Razuna open source digital asset management system
Our next meeting is only a week away, so I'm sorry that I'm not giving you more notice ... Aventaggiato, who will be presenting his company's CFML-based digital asset management system, Razuna [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:25:38
SMI 0.9.9s (Default branch)
SMI (Services Maintenance Interventions) is acomplete free solution to manage services andtechnical support to customers with frontofficeand backoffice modules. It can manage contracts,asset tracking, repair orders, working time,rentals ... )Changes: It's now possible to enter a fixed price for each repair report (the customers don't see [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 05:50:02
Case Study: BlueCrest Capital Management
BobGiffords Motivation for Real-Time Market Data Management BlueCrest Capital Management is a leading European hedge fund, based in London, with over $15 billion in assets-under-management and an award-winning reputation for combining ‘ ... from traditional fixed income, equities, FX and related derivatives, to exotic commodity, energy [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 20:04:08
More Lessons From The 2008 Financial Markets
Larry Swedroe, principal of an asset management company and investment book author, ... that covered a variety of topics from active management to Madoff to your “Plan B”. Here ... . ... If their money managers could protect you, why did firms like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns go belly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 07:46:53
Put the (Nuclear) Winter Coat Away
The first day back into my office brought that always cheerful Venturewire update right into ye ol Inbox. Doom. Gloom. Death. Destruction. Vermin ... water produced gets lost on the way to the tap. A December 2007 Sustainable Asset Management study ... companies. Kneebone (Toronto) – Kneebone Inc. offers proprietary software and related services [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:38:31
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