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OneVue on global path with managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... 'all-in-one' managed account service for advisers. Since then, OneVue has worked with or signed contracts with key investment houses including ING, Challenger, Aviva Investors and Australian Unity. It also struck a deal with Yellow Brick Road (YBR) ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... shows which countries are breeding more billionaires and how they are investing their money. For decades, major investment houses have accumulated a lot of data on high net worth (HNW) investors and how they grow their wealth. This month, the Credit ...

SimCorp launches "office of the future"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... new "Front Office" solution last week, a suite of programs that aims to reduce the operational risks faced by investment houses when integrating multiple systems. The company said that its front office suite of applications were designed to automate ...

AXA Aus launches adviserweb

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... to fast track the way practice principals and advisers access their clients' data through adviserweb, a new website that houses insurance, pension and investment data under one roof. Cam Cimino, AXA's general manager in digital business, said they've ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) joins the growing number of stockbroking and investment houses keen to develop a numerical strategy that can be used to better qualify an investment decision based on a company's ESG policies. Dr Alva De Voy, an equity strategist ...

Asia to reap $75bn windfall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... equities: broad opportunity sets in Asian markets, higher growth and rising valuations. For instance, the Asia Pacific houses 46 per cent of the world's listed companies - with over 20,000 companies. This is in contrast to Australia, where there are ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... Credit Suisse Private Banking and panelist at last week's annual Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, said external research houses' ratings should not be used to formulate advisers' approved products lists. She cited FOS' decision last year, which determined ...

Subscriber-pays ratings approach more critical: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Research houses that are not paid by fund managers for their product ratings are 2.4 times more likely to critically assess the performance of those managers, said van Eyk chief executive, Mark Thomas. In a speech to the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Houses continue to burn in America. Yes Virgie, we learned yesterday that no one wanted to buy old houses (existing homes) in the States after the government stopped giving would-be homeowners free money. Last night, we found out that neither were they ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from the National Association of Realtors has again proved the phrase "safe as houses" wrong -- as it had during America's housing meltdown of 2007-2008. Horrendous! Terrible! Shockingly disappointing! Take ...