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Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Ne'er the twain shall meet but retail fund chief Brian Bissaker from Colonial First State and industry fund chief Ian Silk from Australian Super, shared centre stage to talk about how the industry can best serve financial planners, its members and the ...

V-Wrap sales sky rocket

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Praemium's online portfolio administration service, V-Wrap attracted a record number of new sales in the past two months, increasing by 20 and 30 per cent in June and July respectively compared to the same period's last year. Arthur Naoumidis, Praemium ...

AFA education to knock salesman tag

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) finalised the first unit of the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner program, an education course it hopes will reduce criticism of the financial advice industry. Speaking at the AFA National Forum in Sydney ...

Cuscal appoints super BDM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Cuscal, a traditional provider of wholesale and transactional banking services to retail financial institutions, appointed Helene Upton as national business manager, superannuation. Upton previously worked at Genworth Financial and was responsible for ...

Praemium expands UK funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
ASX-listed Praemium Limited is on the brink of expanding its UK business after it approached the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for authorisation of five new risk-based fund-of-fund portfolios. The new funds will be managed by UK-based Old ...

Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... possible for a similar cost of a normal refurbishment to transform an ordinary suburban strata office into a state of the art sustainable office, whilst never forgetting that the productivity and comfort of the people who work there is paramount," said ...

Intech rebrands

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
Intech Investments has undergone a rebranding exercise that incorporates new corporate colours under the Old Mutual banner. Intech - while retaining its name - will replace its previous purple corporate colour with green, to better align with the Old ...

Uni students get Praemium help

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
Praemium Limited is teaming up with University of Sydney to give its maths students complimentary access to PrA|mium's portfolio administration service (V-Wrap) and market data system (p-Desktop). Praemium unveiled arrangements linking its services ...

Lord Stern launches carbon ratings

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
IDEAglobal Group, a company whose vice-chairman is Lord Stern, has just launched the Carbon Ratings Agency (CRA) service for investors and companies participating in the carbon market. The CRA ratings will operate similarly to credit ratings but focus ...

AXA planner profitability model delivers

A business planning model provided by AXA across its dealer group just under a year ago proved to be a winning formula helping planners who took it up to deliver six times more than those who opted out of the service. In August last year, AXA launched ...