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Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... advice will go down this path," he said. It is certainly the trend in China where Jonathan Wu, head of distribution and operations at Premium China Funds Management, said Hong Kong-based advisers already use iPads to buy or sell managed funds and stocks ...

Kittel to head BankSA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... from present managing director Chapman from October 1. Kittel has been general manager of Westpac's Pacific Banking operations for over four years where she was responsible for a team of 1,200 staff across seven different countries in the Pacific region ...

Asgard appoints new head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... accountant and joined BTFG in 1996 in fund accounting. During his career at BTFG, he has held various roles in wrap operations, product management, strategy and product development. Lawrenson's appointment is effective next month. BTFG's general manager ...

Lazard Carnegie Wylie offloads local Dun & Bradstreet

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the US has bought the independently-owned Australian and New Zealand operations from private equity firm Lazard Carnegie Wylie for A$233 million. The deal will place Australia in the centre of D&B Corporation's aggressive ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... clients may be retirees," he said. Some firms can afford to have large internal resources, while others run on leaner operations, he pointed out. Ultimately, Bolger said the key to reliable research is a focus on delivering, managing and understanding ...

New tech offers high data protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... environments, there is the Acronis corporate solution - Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 - which manages the backup and recovery operations of multiple workstations and servers across a network." Acronis software is sold in more than 180 countries and available ...

IOOF books $225m net inflows, simplifies ops

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... IOOF Global One) last year, the company has increased the transparency of its reporting. It has also simplified its operations to four business segments: platforms, IT Admin Systems, RSE licenses and corporate offices. Previously, these units comprised ...

Tower names chief underwriter, new mgr

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... financial advisers in delivering life solutions to their customers," said Luke Banfield, head of customer service and operations for retail life at the company. Banfield said the appointments signaled a shift in the development of the business. The company ...

ISS co-founder leaves proxy advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. Paatsch's history is that of being ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... vote of confidence among executives on the economy. Why else would they start buying smaller companies to expand their operations? But alas, rising M&A activity is now considered a negative signal. Here's what Reuters printed. "Analysts said the recent ...