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Aviva takes over Henderson property fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... assets, clients should benefit from greater diversification and scale." "The resulting funds will provide an excellent platform for investment exposure to the Asian and continental European commercial property markets." Meanwhile, Mark Skinner, director ...

Praemium preps more advisers to fee-for-service world

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... model," he said at a media briefing yesterday. SMARTwrap, which will be rolled out next month, will use Praemium's V-Wrap platform that already administers over $40 billion in funds under advice. The new wrap allows investors to access 650 wholesale ...

CommInsure completes business restructure, appoints two GMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
CommInsure has finalised the restructure of its insurance operations into five distinct lines of business - a radical departure from its previous model - when it appointed one of its senior staff, Claire Roberts to general manager in wholesale life ...

Asgard makes tax time easier for planners

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... Financial Group's platforms business, John Shuttleworth, said the firm was committed to a program of upgrades for the Asgard platform which will be rolled out over the next three years. "This new tax process will free up advisers to spend more time face-to-face ...

The disappearing act of lose-lose funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... managers to look at how their trades are affected by liquidity and transparency issues outside this heavily regulated platform. "It's a very important point because what happened on that day [when the Dow Jones crashed on May 6] was when they tried to ...

BT Wrap signs five-year deal with DKN

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
BT Wrap has signed a further five-year investment platform agreement with DKN Financial Group. Chris Freeman, head of BT Wrap at BT Financial Group, said the firm has been working with DKN for more than a decade since the Wrap was launched in 1997. ...

Aviva Investors selects Cadis for data

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Aviva Investors has implemented the Cadis EDM platform to its US-based office and plans to roll out the data management platform to its other offices globally. Cadis was selected after a two-week trial and review that ensured the platform could replace ...

SEC hunts BP oil spill scammers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... dollars are being spent daily on short-term cleanup of the spill, which began in April with a blowout at an oil-drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana," the SEC said in a statement. "The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA ...

MLC planning arms complete fee-for-service move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Nunn. This achievement follows a number of milestones for MLC. In March 2006, it launched a commission-free investment platform, MasterKey Fundamentals. In April this year, Godfrey Pembroke announced plans to move to a complete fee-for-advice model for ...

AXA sells UK life and savings business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... of its life and savings operations in the UK two weeks ago. AXA retains AXA Wealth Management, which includes its wrap platform, Elevate, following the deal. The firm also keeps Architas Multi-Manager, AXA Isle of Man and the AXA Winterthur Wealth Management ...