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Desktop Broker signs on 17 clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Direct equities trading platform Desktop Broker has recruited 17 dealer groups to use its services since February this year - partly driven by the firm's "10 business days or less" payment system. Desktop Broker, which has links with ASX-listed Bell ...

Cuffe joins Centric board

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... firm's board. Cuffe is well known for his management roles at Colonial First State where he helped pioneer the FirstChoice platform and, separately, Challenger Financial Services Group. He now works at non-profit group Social Ventures Australia as an ...

BNP Paribas tech boosts Asian ops

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
BNP Paribas' Australian and Asian global custody platform have received a tech revamp - with their systems now finally synchronised with those already in operation in its European offices. BNP Paribas' latest step in its development plans, which began ...

Retirement platforms growing fastest

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... heavyweight, reveals new research from Rainmaker. The findings are contained in the latest Rainmaker Advantage report that shows platform funds under advice to have dropped for the sixth consecutive quarter to $302 billion at end March. Rainmaker said ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... certain fee to be on platforms. "Australia should consider the merits of product manufacturers not being allowed to pay platform operators. If this occurred, there would be a re-alignment of consumer and adviser interests," he said. In short, a ban on ...

J.P. Morgan wins Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... be provided by J.P. Morgan's Sydney-based centre of excellence, which is part of the firm's integrated global custody platform with locations in the US, Europe and Asia. Jane Perry, Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan WSS Australia and New Zealand ...

Bigger and better risk management

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... and regulators in the Apama software to fine-tune their risk management exercises. Apama, a complex event processing platform, is also used by the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Dan Foody, vice president of Progress Actional said following the ...

RaboPlus adds index funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
RaboPlus has added eight Vanguard Investments index funds to the firm's platform and is halving the brokerage across all the fund manager's products till the end of July. The firm's platform now includes the Vanguard Australian Shares Index fund; Australian ...

PIS is not part of sale: NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... we will actively maintain a product relationship with PIS." In a separate development, planners who use the Navigator platform will not be asked to change their remuneration policy despite the platform being bought by fee-for-service advocate NAB/ MLC ...

Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... only contributes a relatively smaller percentage of revenues. Aviva Investors also sources inflows from the Navigator platform, which will become part of NAB after the sale. A lower FUM, either from potential losses from the Navigator platform or Aviva ...