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Plato receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Plato Investment Management has received over $20 million of inflows from clients in the past month, breaking a cash drought that lasted more than half a year. Don Hamson, Plato Investment Management managing director, said inflows had remained stagnant ...

Opposition slams govt short selling claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The opposition has refuted Senator Nick Sherry's claim that the government action on short selling is in-line with the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) report, declaring the government misrepresented the report. Minister ...

SimCorp upgrades risk mgmt tech

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
SimCorp has released the next version of the firm's SimCorp Dimension product, version 4.5, which focuses on alleviating risk across front, middle and back offices of investment management firms. The software has been enhanced with multi factor risk ...

SPAA awards industry's best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) recognised the best and brightest professionals in the sector with Jenny Power and Joanne Heighway winning the Chairman's Award and CEO Scholarship respectively. At the SPAA Limelight Award Ceremony last ...

AFA unveils policy committee

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... sense and practical responses from advisers to Government and the regulator are now more important than ever," he said. Michael Murphy has been appointed committee chair and said the committee would work on key issues and respond to all major Government ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... Speaking of which, AIG takes the cake in scaremongering. AIG's Powerpoint presentation to the US government was scarier than Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', or Michael Jackson himself. Bloomberg reported that, in its attempt to secure more money from the ...

Planners gain clean tech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... support for the sector, an online Essential Research poll found more than 40 per cent of respondents are in favour of nuclear power and only one third opposed it. The Securitor financial planning network has over 400 financial advisers and more than ...

Præmium to add wrap client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
PrA|mium and independent wrap platform provider, Powerwrap signed an agreement deal to provide V-Wrap and separately managed account (SMA) technology to the platform. The 'heads of agreement' deal means Powerwrap's platform can provide access to direct ...

SRI funds need homework: Lonsec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... stocks if, for example, the uranium makes up less than 10 per cent of that company's revenue or if it is used for generating power and not making weapons, said Steven Sweeney, Lonsec investment analyst. Lonsec reviewed six Australian equity SRI funds ...

UBS to launch infra fund next year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... closed fund invests in OECD country infrastructure across transportation, utilities, energy and social infrastructure. US power generation business; Northern Star Generation, UK water company; Southern Water and European waste firm; Saubermacher are ...