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Treasury Asia wins $61.9m Skandia mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has awarded a $61.9 million Asian mandate for its Global Best Ideas fund to Treasury Asia Asset Management. Treasury Asia Asset Management is a boutique investment manager specialising in active investment management in ...

AMP launches Loan Cover

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
AMP is using mortgage brokers to address Australia's under insurance problem with Loan Cover, a simple personal insurance product which requires no underwriting. Loan Cover includes up to $500,000 terminal illness and death cover and can be distributed ...

Bakers launch alt energy retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Alternative energy adviser and fund manager Bakers Investment Group (BIG) is launching its alternative energy retail fund, Bakers Alternative Energy Customised Portfolio. The fund will invest in roughly 75 to 100 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) ...

Goodbye fax, hello tech messaging

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
Tired with paper transactions, nine big fund managers are ditching their fax machines for SWIFTNet Funds' electronic messaging funds transfers. Nine participants in the SWIFTNet Funds market practice and pilot are taking the plunge to go live with electronic ...

FinLit teachers package released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
The Financial Literacy Foundation has finally released a support package for school teachers. "Financial literacy is an absolutely vital life skill for young Australians. The Rudd Government recognises that it's critical that young people get the chance ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
JPMorgan joins top financial institutions ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Citi, and Macquarie Bank on the Yieldbroker online debt trading platform. Yieldbroker is a cooperatively owned venture between members that allows institutional investors to view up ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The Australian share market opened higher today, led by energy stocks Woodside and Santos, after yesterday's more than one per cent decline. US stock markets and commodity trading in London were closed overnight, providing little direction. At 1211 ...

JP Morgan breaks into NZ with musical

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
JPMorgan Australia is using its sponsorship of the long-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera, to heighten awareness of the JP Morgan brand in New Zealand. "We received our registered banking licence late last year [in New Zealand] and we have someone ...

MLC adopts straight through processing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
Faster online applications? Tick. Easy navigation? Tick. Straight through processing (STP) features? Tick. MLC has unveiled a new website that it believes checks all the boxes for adviser functionality. One key element of the new website is its STP ...

BT Wrap to offer short form insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
BT Financial Group joins a growing list of wealth management providers offering simpler and faster insurance when it developed an online short form application as part of its personal insurance service available on its wrap platform. In September last ...