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Cut credit application cost by 70 per cent using CAL: LIXI

Updating credit application systems to use the XML online programming language developed through the Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI) can cut processing costs by 70 per cent and slash processing times. The not for profit industry group LIXI says ...

SSF pension stoush all but resolved as Minister guarantees benefits

After months of threatened union action, the Victorian State Government has issued a formal statement announcing member benefits will go unchanged when the State Superannuation Fund (SSF) effects their roll-in next year. The State government came under ...

Premium road to China now highly recommended

A new fund managed by a HK-based fund manager hailed as the Warren Buffet of the East has notched up several impressive ratings. Zenith has given its highest accolade to the recently launched Premium China fund because it is managed by HK-based Value ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open broadly unchanged as another benign day on the US markets provides little direction for the domestic bourse. However, with the Australian market still awash in activity with earnings and annual general ...

Clients push S&P to make ratings simpler

Standard & Poor's (S&P) is not making a big song-and-dance about it but the ratings house has dramatically changed its ratings scheme due to client demand for a simpler structure. Previously S&P would produce three separate ratings namely ratings for ...

Power of one through MLIM customised portfolios

Investors who want the bells and whistles of a customised managed account but without the added cost can look to the latest offering from Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM). Called 'Customised Portfolio Service', MLIM has paired up with software ...

Mercer to screen managers against ESG

Mercer Investment Consulting (Mercer IC) has started reviewing fund managers regarding how actively they exercise 'active ownership' principles such as exercising proxy voting and participating in constructive shareholder engagement. Mercer IC has taken ...

Margin lending gets independent LIFT

Boutique financial services group LIFT Capital (LIFT) has launched a share lending service which it claims will offer investors independence in the margin lending space. The fund has already collected around $100 million in funds under administration ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

A former director of Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty ...

Opes Prime launches into Asia

Stockbroking firm Opes Prime is to unveil a suite of products early next year to exploit the Asian markets boom and separately, to boost its domestic presence. From its humble beginnings as a four-man team in Melbourne offering securities lending service ...