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AXA hits $10bn on platform but continues to build

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... service upgrades, costing $15 million this year alone, to ensure their platform offering becomes an even more powerful and easy to use investment management tool in the adviser-client relationship. Developments will include website enhancements, improvements ...

Supercorp adapts software to fee transparency rules

... report detailed fee information into their member reports, as per the new legislative rules. SuperVisor 2.1 will also allow easy administration of 'member contribution splitting'. "The pressure on Superannuation administration teams to cope with the ...

Plum puts increased super savings on auto-pilot

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... this kind of plan they tend to stay." However, Fitzsimons allayed the fears of some by stressing that the program was as easy to exit as it was to enter. "They've just got to walk over to their payroll people and opt-out - it's instant," he said. Professor ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative team in Australia, together ...

New group chief exec for AXA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
... across all our operations. The board gave serious consideration to several internal candidates and the decision was not an easy one. The senior executive teams in Australia, New Zealand and Asia are fully committed to continuing the strong progress that ...

No conflict, more interest on MLC

... the advice they receive will not be influenced by financial incentives linked to in-house product sales. "While it would be easy to argue the commercial logic for maintaining an in-house bias in our BOLR contracts, such conflicts are undermining the ...

Asgard makes shares easy through E*Trade

... He explained, "We have spent the last six months researching what financial planners and investors wanted to help make it easy to invest in equities on the platform. They said they want equities to have similar administration and reporting treatment ...

Mortgage brokers see clearly with Vivid

MLC has launched a licensee offer called 'Vivid', designed for mortgage brokers who want to break into finance planning and insurance advice. Under the licensee offer, MLC will provide training and support services so that mortgage brokers can give ...

Fixed income not for everyone, yet: FIIG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
... markets." FIIG's research revealed that most of those looking for reliable and simple fixed income were parking money in easy-to-understand, but underperforming, short-term bank deposits. "What we discovered when we were doing our initial research was ...

TOWER to use Russell for MTM

... scale and expertise of Russell in running multi-manager products. "The operational side of multi-manager investing is not as easy as it looks. We have spent a quarter of a century refining the art of multi-management." "Even if we tell people which fund ...