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Unilever fund dumps direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
The $7.7 billion pension fund for Unilever, Progress, is radically changing its asset allocation to property by pulling out of the direct property sector and switching to listed real estate trusts. Due to changing market conditions in the real estate ...

FIIG opens term deposit site

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Investors can make better informed decisions about their cash investments after FIIG Securities opened a term deposit comparison website. Termdeposit.com.au can find the best term deposit rate from more than 40 providers, allowing people to invest directly ...

Catholic Super enhances insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Catholic Super members can now claim 43 per cent more on basic death and death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover at no extra cost after the fund upgraded its insurance service with TOWER Australia. The negotiated insurance service means ...

Northern Trust adopts FpML

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Northern Trust's Australian clients can trade derivatives more efficiently after the firm added the Financial Product Mark-up Language (FpML) messaging format to its over the counter (OTC) derivatives trading service. The messaging technology automates ...

Avanteos launches managed account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Avanteos is building on its direct equities service and launching its managed account product to provide greater transparency and flexibility for financial planners. The managed account's first phase is an individually managed account (IMA) product ...

Præmium adds CRM service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Portfolio administration provider, Praemium is helping financial planners monitor client relationships by adding SYNCRM's FPS software. SYNCRM's FPS centres on the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service, which allows planners to customise and ...

Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
True to script, Wall Street calmed down from the euphoric rally that greeted investors at the start of the trading week. Just as the spectacular one-day rallies of the 1930s (see yesterday's report, "Depression no more?") were followed by more sober ...

FPWS unveils new SMA service

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
First Prudential Markets is entering the separately managed accounts arena via a partnership with First Prudential Wealth Services. "[Managed accounts] are highly tax efficient, provide direct ownership of shares and can be cheaper than managed funds ...

The end is nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Measures, measures and more measures. How long is a piece of string? How much more money must central banks kept throwing at banks, financial institutions and businesses to get credit flowing again? Selective bailouts, massive rescue packages, coordinated ...

Climate change rhetoric yet to match investor reality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
While the financial services industry acknowledges the significant long term risks posed by climate change, there are still tremendous gaps between rhetoric and reality of what investors are doing about it, reveals a major study just released by Finsia. ...