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Ashton taps vulture funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Multi-manager outfit Ashton Advisors is using its partnership with top performing US-based fund manager Paulson & Co. to thrive and milk opportunities in the wake of the GFC. Ashton, which counts Paulson as one of its managers within its multi-manager ...

Instinet granted clearing membership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Instinet Australia Clearing Services has broken into the Australian clearing house market after gaining an ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation membership. The membership has allowed the firm to clear and settle client trades locally for the past ...

Olicc wins Shadforth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Olicc Technologies, which is part-owned by Coin Financial Planning Software, has scored a deal with boutique dealer group Shadforth Financial. Under the agreement, Shadforth will use Olicc's practice management solutions, including its business intelligence ...

AMP Banking taps Cuscal ATM network

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
AMP Banking customers will continue to receive access to fee-free ATMs, despite the new Direct Charging rules that will come into effect in March, after the bank signed a deal with Cuscal, owner of the rediATM network. AMP Banking, which doesn't have ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network. CMC Markets first piloted its TSN April last year ...

Advisers happier with wrap service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The number of satisfied financial advisers using Macquarie Wrap has increased by seven per cent to 91 per cent over a one-year period. The research, found 93 per cent of advisers are satisfied with the telephone support they have received and almost ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Financial planners must drop the traditional 'set and forget' strategy and become more dynamic to ensure their client portfolios are able to deal with changing macro economic conditions, according to van Eyk. Nigel Wilkin-Smith, van Eyk head of the ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Australian fund managers with an eye on tech stocks dodged the Satyam scandal, with two local fund managers reporting they had no investments in the firm. Fiducian Portfolio Services investment manager, Conrad Burge, said the firm's India Fund did not ...

Aberdeen Financials fund rated 'three star'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Research and ratings firm, Standard & Poor's has given the Aberdeen Financials Fund a 'three star' rating. The fund is managed using a bottom-up investment approach and features a low five per cent annual portfolio turnover. Mark Daniels, Aberdeen head ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Australian based wealth management administration providers Bravura and Praemium have scored international deals that will see the firms export their services to Vietnam and the UK respectively. Bravura signed a $5.8 million agreement with one of Vietnam's ...