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IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
IOOF has announced that provided NAB acquires AXA Asia Pacific it will buy the AXA North platform, potentially removing a major stumbling block holding back the NAB-AXA merger. The focus on the North platform is because the competition regulator, the ...

UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... successive team changes and a poor performance history, the most recent changes in the team and the fund's strategy provide a platform from which S&P can build rating conviction, noted a press statement. However, the ratings house warned that any further ...

Wealthtrac broadens share trading services

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
Platform provider Wealthtrac has launched a new share trading facility that allows advisers to choose from six panel brokers, including JB Were, Morgan Stanley and RBS Morgans. Matthew Johnson, chief executive and managing director of Wealthtrac, said ...

TOWER Aus hits $1bn insurance milestone

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
TOWER Australia has tipped over $1 billion in in-force premium and the group hopes its platform product Accelerated Protection will continue to appeal to more advisers. The Australian life insurance firm continues to report more than 10 per cent growth ...

UBS GAM renews NAB custody deal

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... follows a review and due diligence process that highlighted the opportunity of NAB Asset Servicing's new middle office platform. NAB Asset Servicing has been providing custody to UBS GAM for five years. "Retaining the partnership also provide scope for ...

SAP and Sybase merger gets ACCC tick

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... According to Sybase, the deal will accelerate the reach of both companies services across mobile platforms. Sybase's mobile platform will connect all applications and data to SAP technology to enable them on mobile devices. In addition, SAP and Sybase ...

Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Listed property group Charter Hall, which early this year bought Macquarie's core real estate management platform, responds to SMSF demand for direct property investments with the launch of a new industrial fund. Richard Stacker, previously at Macquarie ...

Treasury bounces back to pre-crisis FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Treasury Group's funds under management (FUM) rose more than 34 per cent to $14.7 billion in the year to June, close to its pre-GFC levels, after three of its fund managers attracted flows from institutional investors. The group's FUM increased by $3.7 ...

Asian dark pools open to instos

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Charles River Development clients will be able to access dark pool liquidity in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia following a partnership with BlocSec. The deal will see Charles River clients use BlocSec to anonymously trade large blocks of ...

T. Rowe Price opens Aus equities business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
T. Rowe Price is opening an Australian equities division for the first time and hired former Schroder Investment Management senior portfolio manager, Randal Jenneke, to oversee its development. Jenneke spent nine years at Schroder as an Australian equities ...