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Guardian launches wrap platform

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
Guardian Financial Planning has launched Vantage Portfolio Solutions, a platform that gives investors, who have reached their super contribution limit, an alternative channel for their savings. The wrap platform is a white label version of Colonial ...

Ausmaq goes live on SWIFT tech

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Ausmaq has become the first Australian investment platform to use live automated funds transaction processing over SWIFT technology. Mark Candy, general manager client services Ausmaq, said using SWIFT was an extension of the firm's push to drive automation ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
"Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round..." - Upside Down, Diana Ross If there's any observation that can be made about Wall Street's movement overnight, it is that investor sentiment remains fragile. Just when financial markets ...

Suncorp names exec manager of life risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
Suncorp Life has appointed former Aviva general manager of distribution, Richard Bellis, as executive manager of life risk adviser solutions. Bellis worked as general manager of distribution at Aviva between 2006 and December 2009 and has held a number ...

Discounted life cover at Asteron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
Everyone loves a discount - so planners looking to boost their clients' life cover can now ask them to look at Asteron, which is offering premium reductions under a new policy that rewards "good health". The Healthy Plus Option offers Asteron Lifeguard ...

KiwiSaver eggs more savings, but not enough

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
A survey has found far more New Zealanders are saving money for retirement but very few are using the KiwiSaver scheme to its full potential. AMP's SuperWatch survey found KiwiSaver is the preferred retirement savings option with 67 per cent of respondents ...

Asteron leaves KiwiSaver market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Asteron is pulling out of the New Zealand KiwiSaver market. The firm is winding up its KiwiSaver Scheme at the end of May, which had more than 6,000 members with approximately $33 million in funds under management (FUM). The decision to withdraw from ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Gaming group Tabcorp will be moving the superannuation accounts of 250 NSW TAB staff affected by the collapse of Astarra to CareSuper. A Tabcorp spokesperson contacted by Financial Standard this morning said the company has written to the relevant workers ...

Guardian signs Custom Solutions

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Colonial First State's Custom Solutions platform has signed a white label agreement with Suncorp Group-owned Guardian Financial Planning. The deal means Guardian advisers will be able to provide clients with a broad number of investment options, risk ...

Select looks to sign on six dealer groups

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
Select Asset Management is in talks with six dealer groups looking to use the firm's Customised Portfolio Solutions (CPS). Andrew Fairweather, chief executive of Select Asset Management, said the firm had around six to seven dealer groups in the discussion ...