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Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
You call last week a sell-off, this is a sell-off. Wall Street is now more than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so large and so interwoven in our financial system that a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact ...

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
Local fund managers have the right skills and resources to make Australia the financial services hub in Asia and beyond but taking on that mantle doesn't necessarily mean the money has to be managed at home. Speaking at the IFSA conference yesterday ...

More females in fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... universities," said Charles Cornish, head of business management at DNR. Not one to pass up on skilled talent opportunities, the IMA portfolio manager is following this trend closely. However Cornish was quick to point out that many women were inclined ...

BlackRock and Ralton join IMAP board

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) has recruited BlackRock's Cormac Heffernan and Ralton Asset Management's Damian Holland to its board of directors. In an IMAP meeting held in Melbroune last week, Heffernan, head of BlackRock's SMA ...

Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Vignette has rolled out a new online system that brings traditionally hard to access wealth management customer service to the World Wide Web. The new Vignette Case Manager allows organisations to automate and track customer transactions across multiple ...

See-through IMAs buffer market sting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
Dalton Nicol Reid clients are hunkering down for a year of negative returns - but the specialist portfolio manager said they were well-informed ahead of the financial year-end due to the transparency of individually managed accounts (IMAs). DNR, one ...

Financial Simplicity launches Open Edition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
Managed account provider Financial Simplicity has released an 'Open Edition' technology toolkit tailored for platforms and distribution groups looking to offer their own managed account products. Financial Simplicity claims its toolkit allows each provider ...

IMAP gains Aviva muscle

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) is aiming to spread the platform reach of separately managed accounts (SMAs) with the appointment of Aviva manager of investment products, Peter Rowley, as an IMAP director. Rowley currently heads up ...

Investment Trends names top SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
BlackRock, MLC and Tricom are among the top separately managed account (SMA) players according to a new Investment Trends report. BlackRock has surged ahead of the separately managed account (SMA) pack to be crowned the provider with best overall functionality ...