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AMP easywrite eases insurance pain

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... apply for a lump sum insurance policy for their clients by a third, after AMP updated its underwriting service. The automated service, easywrite, allows planners or customers to complete an application form online or over the phone in roughly 10 minutes ...

AXA to invest $30m in life insurance

... AXA general manager in Financial Protection Michael Rogers that the investment will go into updating systems such as automated streaming and underwriting but more importantly, into improving their service and client relationships. "Share of new business ...

UBS redefines fixed income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... market performance by diversifying across four of the firm's fixed income funds. The UBS Fixed Income Plus includes fully automated investment decisions and targets a return of two per cent above BBSW (Bank Bill Swap Rate or de facto cash rate). The ...

Dreman hands wrap to Charles River

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... said Boris Onefater, chief executive/operating officer of Dreman. The firm implemented the Charles River IMS system for automated portfolio management along with trading and compliance of its equity investing and fund portfolio operations. Dreman users ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

Telstra Super signs Charles River for direct portfolio management

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... it used to be as the fund has now signed on for the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) to implement its automated portfolio management, compliance and trading for their in-house Australian equities, futures and options management. Telstra ...

Praemium wins UK platform deal

... the first $22,000 of capital gains (around 9,000 pounds) tax-free. At the moment, getting that CGT exemption is not automated by the platform and fund providers there. By contrast, Cofunds can introduce automating this $22,000 CGT exemption on behalf ...

Investing by 2020

... he said. For example, what is currently considered 'insight' or 'skill-based' will become increasingly systemised or automated that finding fund managers who can deliver 'pure alpha' will be tough. Instead, the most successful funds will be those which ...

LG Investments chooses Charles River

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... FIX system was unmatched in terms of price and implementation time. "Charles River IMS' extensive portfolio modelling, automated electronic allocations and real time compliance monitoring and management has already significantly improved our workflow ...

Lack of automation hikes costs

... processing is often "not a bad solution" in cases where the volumes are low. However, he conceded that transitioning to automated solutions are beneficial in the long run as labour costs in Japan, for example, are higher than in most European markets. ...