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More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Shaw and Partners (Shaw) has appointed five more Macquarie veterans just weeks after the private wealth firm hired three others from the financial services giant. Former Macquarie Private Wealth Victorian state manager Malcolm Cameron has taken on the ...

Saxo opens up access to trading platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Saxo Bank is giving its clients and partners open access to its trading infrastructure so they can develop it, customise it and integrate it into their own applications and systems. The move covers Saxo's multi-asset trading and back office infrastructure ...

Ellerston named hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
The Ellerston Australian Market Neutral Fund has taken home the 2015 Australian Hedge Fund of the Year award. Hedge funds of all styles and sizes were recognised at the Hedge Funds Rock event in Sydney's glitzy Ivy Ballroom. Ellerston also collected ...

AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... changes based on a review by Goldman Sachs. The changes include implementing a Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect trading platform to increase the fund's liquidity. It will also alter the current default dividend reinvestment plan (DRP) election to allow ...

Mortgage Choice pulls comparator platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
Home loan broker Mortgage Choice has pulled its online comparator platform, helpmechoose.com.au (HMC), after a strategic review. In the company's full year result announcement, chief executive John Flavell said the distribution tool failed to live ...

GBST managing director to retire

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
The managing director and chief executive of industry software provider GBST has announced he wishes to retire. Stephen Lake, who has been with the company since 2001, informed the board that he will remain in the role while a successor is found and ...

Mercer selects customer management platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
Mercer has selected PractiFI as its core platform for customer management. Mercer leader of financial services Pacific, Andrew Godfrey, said PractiFI will help track every interaction in a single customer view and manage workflows across customer service ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... head of indices Guido Giese, the CSA has become both the "gold standard for corporate sustainability" and "a competitive platform where companies receive recognition for their sustainability practices." He added, "The CSA is a state of the art, in-depth ...

Gradual progress on super fund digital engagement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... updated. Switching investment products is now available on 92% of websites. While Facebook is the most popular social platform in Australia with 14,000,000 users, only 40% of the funds surveyed use the site. YouTube is being used by 42% and 36% use Twitter. ...

PractiFI expands with $1.3m seed funding

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Financial advice practice administration platform PractiFI has closed its seed funding round after raising capital to expand overseas. PractiFI raised $1.3 million in angel investor funding from Australia, Malaysia, the UK and US. "We are hugely excited ...