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MLC appoints head of onsale advice product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
MLC Insurance has appointed former Allianz Life executive, Meredith Barnes, to the role of head of onsale advice product. Barnes will be responsible for ensuring the MLC Personal Protection Portfolio and the Aviva Protection First insurance product ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
America is zeroing in on China's weapon of mass destruction - the "overvalued renminbi". Yes Virginia, the US is drawing up battle plans as I write. According to Bloomberg, "Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South ...

BT Wrap tackles bigger bulk order trading

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
BT Wrap has introduced a new multi-client bulk order trading facility to improve its platform services to advisers. The new Multi-Client Bulk Order equities trading functionality includes the ability to buy or sell a single listed security for up to ...

Instinet adds four to Sydney office

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Instinet has appointed three sales traders and an equities IT specialist to its Sydney office. Scot Burton was hired as a senior sales trader while Alex Lai and Dan Heavener were both appointed sales traders. Chris Vella, was appointed to the equities ...

MFS on expansion trail

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
US-based fund manager MFS has increased its market share in global equities funds management by 44 per cent in 12 months - underpinning a worldwide expansion strategy that includes bigger operations in Australia. Visiting Australia last month, MFS chief ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Asian institutions remain confident in their overall investment strategies - but many appear to have lost faith in their relatively small lists of external asset managers, according to new research by Greenwich Associates. In terms of raw size, Asia's ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Admin and investment fees charged by major Australian super funds are on par, if not better, than those charged by similar funds in the US, the UK and Japan - but more can be done to lower overall costs to the average fund member, a global study found. ...

Banks to face liquidity crisis "fire drills": APRA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Starting next year, Australian banks could be subject to "fire drills" that test how well they can cope with a severe market disruption, under new liquidity reporting rules proposed by APRA. APRA has released a discussion paper that proposes major changes ...

Industrial espionage turns viral

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
The financial services industry could face more threats of industrial espionage online through malicious software technology often associated with credit card fraud, warns an IT security expert. At a time when banks, fund managers and super funds already ...