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AIA Australia launches life product upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Life insurance provider AIA Australia has upgraded its priority protection product to include severe diabetes as a crisis event under its benefits listings in response to skyrocketing cases in the Australian population. It is reported that some 275 ...

MasterKey Custom upgrades to MLC Wrap

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... service investment platform, MLC Wrap, to access the platform's full range of functionality and investment options. The upgrade has resulted in an additional 30,000 clients and $9 billion in funds under management moving to MLC Wrap. MLC said it was ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
Standard & Poor's has downgraded the ratings of major US banks, including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, by one notch. The ratings agency said it reviewed its ratings on 37 of the world's largest ...

DST Global Solutions launches HiPortfolio upgrade

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
Software and technology provider DST Global Solutions has upgraded its investment accounting and asset servicing solution HiPortfolioA(R) 3v10. DST said the enhanced version is the latest in a regular cycle of functional and technical enrichment, based ...

Indonesia readies for bond rating upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Sentiment that Indonesia's bond rating could soon be upgraded to investment quality has helped fuel foreign demand for an Indonesian government Sukuk issue. The issue is only for $1 billion but already 75% has been booked to local buyers and investors ...

AustralianSuper gives Alphinity $400+ million mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... previous AllianceBernstein heavyweights, Alphinity Investment Management targets undervalued companies entering an earnings upgrade phase which the firm said provides the opportunity for increased investment returns. AustralianSuper's head of Australian ...

SMSF cloud solution launched

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
A new cloud based, self-managed super fund business solution designed specifically for financial service providers has been launched. Superfund Wholesale is an automated setup and administration service for self managed super funds (SMSFs) designed ...

S&P upgrades Invesco Asian Consumer Demand fund

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has upgraded the hold rating on Invesco's Wholesale Asian Consumer Demand Fund, replacing it with three stars. S&P placed the fund 'On Hold' early in September following notification by the manager that it would move ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Quiet please, EU meeting in progress. Yes Virginia, they're still at it. Two years on and Europe's back at the negotiating table trying to dig their way out of the hole first dug by Greece in October 2009. One begins to wonder how they were able consummate ...

Trust company considers outsourcing while MITs drive growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... systems in New Zealand because it will be lower cost and we're moving all that onto a group basis," said Atkin. "We need to upgrade and refresh our systems but we'll build that one capability ourselves or outsource it in New Zealand and then migrate ...