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Pentafin beefs up IT team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Pentafin has appointed US expat Joe Vetto and ex-Challenger operations support manager Karen Chim to its IT team. Joe Vetto, the former co-founder and vice-president of product development for Seattle-based X6 Technologies which is now Minecode, has ...

FTI Aus unveils global equity fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... currently be offered for segregated accounts (called managed accounts in Australia), with the intention of adding a unit trust later in the year. "Australian clients are increasingly demanding value for money from their active managers" said Maria Wilton ...

Pentafin tags Thunderhead for SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Pentafin has secured the Thunderhead NOW platform to support its unit trust and managed accounts (MA) business. Pentafin partnered with Thunderhead following a global hunt for a solution provider to cater to the technology firm's MA and unit trust requirements. ...

PIS gets Malaysian license

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... Malaysian subsidiary Standard Financial Planner (SFP) is set embark on an expansion spree after being granted a Corporate Unit Trust Agent (CUTA) licence. The Malaysia's Securities Commission granted SFP the licence recently, making it the first financial ...

IMAP gains Aviva muscle

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) is aiming to spread the platform reach of separately managed accounts (SMAs) with the appointment of Aviva manager of investment products, Peter Rowley, as an IMAP director. Rowley currently heads up ...

Investment Trends names top SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... pricing remained complex and unwieldy - making it very difficult for advisers to compare between SMAs or traditional unit trust investments. Adam Dawes, director of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP) and head of portfolio and financial ...

AAI launches the Art Trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
Fine art is the next alternative investment to hit the market after an art specialist launched a new unit trust designed for institutional investors. Registered as a managed investment scheme, The Art Trust, adopts a unit trust structure and aims to ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
Franklin Templeton Investments has launched an emerging markets fund - a unit trust available to Australian investors in local currency that invests in global emerging markets. The fund is denominated in Australian dollars and its objective is to seek ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

Financial systems group Pentafin and separately managed account (SMA) specialist Direct Portfolio are joining forces to provide investment providers a more tax-effective and transparent way to administer shares and other managed investments. While the ...

Striking a balance on SMSF direct property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... However if you don't want to sell the property you could sell shares and cash to meet pension payment, or you could use a unit trust structure," she said. According to Anderson, more SMSF trustees are looking to invest in direct property because it is ...