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IAS pools $650m in managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
Investment Administration Services (IAS) encourages both boutique and large dealer groups to embrace managed accounts as the firm's funds under administration (FUA) hits $650 million. IAS' private label discretionary portfolio services has exceeded ...

BT Wrap lends more aid to dealer groups

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Fund platform BT Wrap has upgraded its reporting tool to enhance the ability of its dealer groups to watch over 5000 advisers. The technological tweaks, which went live on February 21, enhance the Dealer Group DeskTop porfolio model launched last year. ...

ING DIRECT launches term deposit

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
ING DIRECT has launched a new term deposit product that gives account holders the option to select the maturity date of their term deposit at any time and do it online. "We see this as a simple way of improving an already popular product to better fit ...

YBR launches term deposits

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... chairman, Yellow Brick Road. Speaking at the Chief Economist Forum last week, Dr Don Stammer said that on-call and term deposit rates were currently 'very attractive to depositors'. According to Rainmaker, AMP, FirstChoice, NAB and TPS all offer a variety ...

Maritime offers fixed term investment option

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... arguably the first of its kind introduced by an industry fund. The fixed term investment option works like a fixed term deposit strategy, with members' super invested for a term of up to 12 months. Peter Robertson, chief executive of Maritime Super ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
One of the country's most respected equity fund managers has lamented that its retail business is facing "intense" competition from bank term deposits. "While Platinum continues to attract positive retail net fund inflows the competition from bank term ...

AMIST Super takes driver's seat on cash and bonds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... Pham's first moves was to help oversee the shift of a $60 million cash mandate with Aberdeen Asset Management into a term deposit investment managed internally. AMIST chief executive John Livanas said Aberdeen still manages money for them but that part ...

Commercial property regains appeal: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
The latest Charter Hall Group Investor Forum survey of approximately 400 Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) trustees and individual investors found that 55 per cent of investors plan to invest more into listed and unlisted property market this year. The ...

Mistaken identity on term deposits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... (FPA) questions some of the research assumptions and said planners are already 'well trained' in the correct use of term deposit products. PIMCO surveyed over 200 financial advisers in July 2010, concluding that almost half of those surveyed had 'little ...

Challenger back in the black, annuity sales trebles

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Challenger Financial Services has staged a strong profit recovery during the year, buoyed by a record performance from its annuities business and a 22 per cent rise in gross assets under management to almost $24 billion. The group reported results this ...