Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 431 - 440 of 547 results for "Marketplace"

Bluedoor Technology on hiring spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... Bluedoor Technology has been almost overwhelming," he said. "The timing is right, product appears to be right and now the marketplace is very comfortable that Bluedoor has a company of something like DST behind them." Bluedoor Technologies was appointed ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... is too risky," he said. "This lack of transparency comes from using legacy back office systems which so many in the marketplace still use." To the industry's credit, the survey found the scale of activity and magnitude of outstanding exposures in the ...

AdviserLogic selects CLS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Kurt Smyth, executive manager at CLS, said adding AdviserLogic as a client reflects CLS' growing reputation in the marketplace. "Financial planners that are determined to ensure the long term growth and profitability of their practices are reassessing ...

IOOF and AWM merger set to go

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... position and the new company, through the synergies, will be much stronger and better placed to compete in the current marketplace," said IOOF chairman, Ian Blair. "It is expected that the combined entity will be well positioned to take advantage of ...

Praemium and Heffron join forces

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... to a wider range of integrated, quality SMSF services, with advantages particularly in this challenging financial marketplace," said Praemium managing director, Arthur Naoumidis. "We are finding that more advisers and accountants are seeking high quality ...

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... industry (US) in 2008. Ian Alcock, Managing Director of Vanguard Australia, said the launch of ETFs into the Australian marketplace is a natural extension of Vanguard's proven indexing investment approach. "Vanguard will now be able to offer Australian ...

FPA members gain practice tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... Australia's leading advisory practices having undertaken a HealthCheck we can now rate what is truly best practice in the marketplace and provide owners with an independent benchmark against their peers," he said. Business Health's data previously found ...

Instinet granted clearing membership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Instinet Australia Clearing Services has broken into the Australian clearing house market after gaining an ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation membership. The membership has allowed the firm to clear and settle client trades locally for the past ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... family of pooled funds. "After a comprehensive review of the capabilities of the various providers in the Canadian marketplace, our management team concluded that RBC Dexia is the ideal company to deliver these investor services for our pooled funds," ...

Online rush for gold

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... home-brand bullions which can be limiting in terms of resale in that it may not be a tradable commodity in the global marketplace. According to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU), the future of gold as a defensive asset is bright. The recent ...