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NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
National Australia Bank Group's boutique fund manager Northward Capital, has launched the division's first retail fund, Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust. The fund adopts a neutral investment strategy so that it can outperform in different market ...

New tech changes on MLC cards

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
MLC is raising the technology stakes in May as it prepares to unveil a new website sporting upgraded links with its financial planning software. Anthony Waldron, general manager of MLC platforms said there will be a greater degree of integration between ...

MAN hedge fund gets top rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... flexible tactical asset allocation approach. "While the fund is a new product with a limited track record the underlying master fund that this fund invests into has a successful longer track record dating back to March 2001," said Davis.

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... forms by planning software was nominated as the most desired integration improvement to boost their business. Data from master trusts and wraps, streamlining transactions and online applications, redemptions and switches also featured strongly as needed ...

Governance before crisis

... that have to be shut down," he said. Research by Rainmaker and ISN indicate that the compulsory superannuation fees in master trusts are rapidly approaching the $1 billion mark. It is a hefty cross for fund members to bear should something go wrong and ...

Uni to offer SMSF degree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) trustee education will be boosted with plans to develop postgraduate and certificate programs in potentially half a dozen universities around Australia. "Adelaide University has developed an SMSF certificate and masters ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

... specialist SMSF course that covers the three new government rules that affect SMSFs and more recently, a time-flexible Master of Applied Finance program. More importantly, Jacobson said the talent shortage in Australia and overseas has put more pressure ...

Asgard automates data feeds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... input multiple times. The standards have been implemented across Asgard Wealth Solutions' (Asgard) eWRAP, Elements and Master Trust products. "[Asgard] has always had downloads to planning software but from a process perspective it required the user ...

Pillar wins outsourcing deal

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... "This move also underpins our continuing development of innovative and quality superannuation solutions through the Aon Master Trust," said Fortheringam. Pillar's chairman, Dr Col Gellatly, said: "We are excited about being appointed to administer Aon's ...

Breakthrough on super fund fee processing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... CapitalX tests were carried out on a basic install of SQL Server 2008, running on Windows Server 2008. Syncsoft ran tests on a master trust to test a complex product, and then ran a less complex industry fund product which scaled to 18.4 million members ...