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Westpac unveils new trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Westpac has launched a new online trading platform for its 250,000 broking customers. James Staltari, the head of Westpac Securities, said the new website is called Westpac Online Investing, and includes an improved range of equity and investment services ...

The audacity of Mark Bouris and Ray Miles

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Platform and admin providers have less than three weeks to map out a bid that could secure them a landmark contract from a new planning syndicate led by Wizard founder Mark Bouris and ex-Genesys head Ray Miles - but details of the bid suggest any deal ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
A leading fixed income manager likens the market to a car careening into a frozen pond and fishtailing before steadying - except the car could still crash and is still on thin ice. Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at $10 billion-plus fund manager ...

GESB reaches $10b milestone

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Western Australia's biggest super fund, GESB, has reached the $10 billion mark in funds under management. GESB has experienced 107 per cent growth in the fund over the past five years, noted Michelle Dolin, chief executive of GESB. A major contributor ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Three leading placement agents in Australia have filed a joint submission to the Cooper Review, stressing that the system in Australia is more transparent and markedly different to the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, one of the ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

Add some sugar, then blend

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
Fidelity International has launched three online applications that can help financial advisers compare how their client's investment returns could change depending on the mix of managed funds, or exposure to China and India, within their portfolios. ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
A financial adviser who gave his clients false disclosure documents was slapped with a five-year ban from providing financial services. ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation ...

Rationalise me

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
Investors and life insurance holders stuck in an estimated $220 billion worth of legacy products could benefit from new government proposals in aid of transferring them to the cheaper and modern version of their investments. The minister for superannuation ...

CalSTRS adopts engagement code

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has become one of the first US pension funds to sign a new standard that outlines how to properly engage with companies they invest in. The code was developed by UK-based Institutional Shareholders' ...