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Provident Capital offers new fixed-rate units

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
Finance group Provident Capital has released a new fixed rate unit option in their Provident Capital Monthly Income Fund. Alex Francois, head of distribution - investments for Provident, said investors were looking for stability and reliability balanced ...

RBC Dexia opens Thailand for Aberdeen

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
RBC Dexia Investor Services has opened its pan-Asian transfer agency platform in Thailand, meaning fund orders that once were faxed are now automated. The global service provider has opened its platform specifically for investment management client ...

Tower, Praemium tackle new frontier

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... access to its 200 planner groups. The partnership allows Tower to be the sole life insurance product provider on the platform. Tower products available will include life cover, permanent disability, critical illness, income protection, and business expenses ...

Merged planning groups plot Snowball effect

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... opportunity, with many advisers looking to build scale. "Once we're on top of integrating the two businesses, we think we have a platform that makes sense for others to join in and leverage off the infrastructure we have," said Tony Fenning, managing ...

BT Wrap freshens interface

RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Platform BT Wrap has added features to its microsite in preparation for the end of financial year. The site has been changed to include a tool kit to help financial advisers educate clients. It also now provides information on a new superannuation contributions ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Asian electronic trading platform provider Tora has launched a new compliance engine that enables clients to write targeted trading rules and helps with compliance. TORA Compass 7.0 allows users to create specific rules for particular orders, portfolios ...

Advisers hampered by conflicted platforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... 26 leading master trust and wrap platforms studied by research firm Investment Trends for its 2010 Investment Trends Platform Report, only three were totally independent in not owning a distribution network of planners at the same time as being product ...

Macquarie breathes new Life into insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... said. FutureWise offers disability income, life and TPD cover that will now be made available through the Macquarie Wrap platform, while Macquarie Sumo, catering for high net worth clients, has also been upgraded for advisers nationwide. Other changes ...

CFS awards three new alternatives mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Colonial First State has awarded three mandates, totalling $300 million dollars, from its Colonial FirstChoice platform that will form a new alternatives manager allocation strategy. FirstChoice Growth now has an allocation of 3 per cent to alternatives. ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... reliably through new innovations. Bloomberg is expanding into enterprise technology services and its Professional service platform has more than 300,000 business and financial professional users globally. "Technology executives are under enormous pressure ...