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HFA profits up 389pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
HFA Accelerator Plus, a listed investment fund that specialises in absolute return strategies, has posted a near quadrupling of profits in the last financial year. This increase is on the back of a 253 per cent increase in revenue on its previous full ...

Matrix re-signs Oasis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
Matrix Planning Solutions has re-signed a five-year deal with financial services platform Oasis Asset Management. Matrix will continue to use the Oasis platform to offer its superannuation master trust and investment portfolio service to the retail ...

Big brother in outsourcing: Unisys

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
Many Australians are unaware of their personal information being outsourced as companies and government agencies contract out their business functions, Unisys Security Index research found. IT, human resources, legal and call centre services are often ...

Super Concepts buys Super Design

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
ING-owned self managed super fund (SMSF) specialist Super Concepts has purchased Super Designs, expanding their reach in the ever-expanding SMSF market. Early this week, Super Concepts posted a 177 per cent increase in funds established in the last ...

Perpetual strategy bears fruit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
Listed investment manager Perpetual is reaping the rewards of a strategy implemented four years ago after its latest results show that more than 50 per cent of revenue growth over the period came from non-Australian equity sources and nearly 20 per ...

Erste Bank signs SimCorp for fund platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
SimCorp Dimension has scored a major coup after it signed a funds management and administration IT contract with Erste Bank, one of the largest financial services group in Central and Eastern Europe. The Austrian banking giant will use SimCorp as its ...

City Super beefs up insurance and Aus equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
Brisbane-based superannuation fund City Super has launched a new insurance offering through ING Group Risk and has recently awarded more than $140 million in Australian equities mandates. The fund's new risk option will include higher levels of cover ...

Australian Ethical Investments go global

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
Investors who want ethical investments with a global bent can avail of a new product that does exactly that after the Australian Ethical Investment launched its first internationally focused trust. The ethical fund manager already has an equities trust ...

Blame it on my Blackberry

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
At a time when financial services professionals are clocking up more work hours than their predecessors, yet another study has found that many people are unable to separate their private and work time due to mobile email devices such as the Blackberry. ...

Eclectic signs up to Hatfield Liptak

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
Hatfield Liptak Advisors has secured the rights to market and distribute local hedge fund Eclectic Capital Management both domestically and offshore. Melbourne based Eclectic Capital can provide investors with a transparent portfolio due to its dealings ...