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Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Northern Trust has been granted an Australian banking licence, allowing it to provide banking transaction services and broader custody and asset services to its local clients. The licence means Australian based Northern Trust clients such as the federal ...

Japan's pensions turn to alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Japanese pension funds are rethinking their diversification strategy and planning to reduce their domestic equities allocation in favour of more alternative assets such as absolute return products, according to a new survey. A JPMorgan Asset Management ...

Investing in credit the next big opportunity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
The credit crunch induced shake-out of world bond markets has devalued loan portfolios so much that they now represent a tremendous investment opportunity. The revaluation is already attracting US pension funds and institutional investors to re-look ...

Bravura partners with StorLife

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Bravura Solutions partnered with data storage and information management provider, StorLife to provide a secure storage area for its account transfer information. Announced in London, StorLife will be used in Bravura's Rufus Global Transfer Agency system ...

Financial Synergy hires senior business analyst

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Financial Synergy has appointed Katia Cianchi as senior business analyst for the Acurity development team. Cianchi's role sees her acting as a dedicated client business analyst focused on identifying the business needs of Acurity clients and developing ...

Unilever fund dumps direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
The $7.7 billion pension fund for Unilever, Progress, is radically changing its asset allocation to property by pulling out of the direct property sector and switching to listed real estate trusts. Due to changing market conditions in the real estate ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
More than 20 per cent of working Australians have reduced their super contributions, changed their investment options or switched to a new super fund in the last three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the ...

ATO security blunder sparks review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is issuing more than 3,000 self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees with new tax file numbers and reviewing its security measures after it lost a CD containing highly sensitive trustee information. The tax file numbers ...

FIIG opens term deposit site

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Investors can make better informed decisions about their cash investments after FIIG Securities opened a term deposit comparison website. Termdeposit.com.au can find the best term deposit rate from more than 40 providers, allowing people to invest directly ...

First State Super wins low cost race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Economies of scale, use of electronic fund transfers (EFTs) and use of email over paperwork all helped make $15 billion First State Super the 'lowest cost' public offer fund in Australia, based on the latest Rainmaker Benchmarking report. The report ...