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St.George's tech gets a boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
St.George Bank's data warehousing practices are expected to go through a major upgrade following the installation of the Teradata 5550 platform and Teradata 12 database in Australia. The new system consists of a three-node Teradata 5550 platform in ...

CSRF chases alpha

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) awarded Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock Investment Management a $100 million mandate each to capture short-term equity market opportunities. The mandates were allocated to the BGI ...

AMP launches SMA platform

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
AMP has launched a separately managed account (SMA) platform, developed specifically for Hillross Financial Services clients, in a bid to better manage the direct equities portion of their clients' portfolios. The new Personalised Portfolio service ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The US is moving to an upgraded financial system regulatory model that should remind Australian wealth managers of the debate we had a decade ago during the Wallis Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat ...

King doubles size after buying spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
King Financial Services has doubled its size after it acquired two advisory groups with a combined funds under advice (FUA) of $290 million. The Canberra-based company is now one of the largest financial planning firms in the Australian Capital Territory ...

Intech courts alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
Skandia's 2006 acquisition Intech has ramped up its exposure to alternative investment strategies with the launch of its Global Trading Strategies Trust II (GTSII) diversified alternatives trust. "Intech's diversified trust investors now have the opportunity ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
The US economy has continued to receive news indicating some serious danger signs as the second largest supplier of home lending facilities to those with poor credit histories, the New Century Financial Corp, has ceased making new loans and announced ...

600,000 Understanding Money booklets mailed: Dutton

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
Since the financial literacy Understanding Money campaign was launched in July this year, 600,000 Understanding Money booklets have been sent out. Half these were sent out in response to requests sent to the website with the other half in response to ...

Reverse mortgage sector picking up pace

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
In the first comprehensive study undertaken on the Australian reverse mortgage industry, actuarial firm Trowbridge Deloitte reported that the sector had doubled its value in the last 18 months as the reverse mortgage products gained traction. The study ...

Agribusiness still appeals to lenders

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
Leaving aside the current crisis, bankers still see the rural sector as an attractive market. Westpac's general manager for agribusiness banking Graham Jennings said the bank has added 45 agribusiness bankers to his team in the past 12 months. The bank's ...