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NAB/Aviva deal fuels insurance shake-up

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... opportunity to move into that space," said Solomon. NAB, which paid $825 million for both Aviva's life insurance operations and platform Navigator, has yet to reveal if the Navigator or Aviva brand will continue to be used. Solomon pointed out that it ...

NAB and Aviva rule platform land

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
NAB's acquisition of Aviva Australia's Navigator business will create the largest platform provider with $69 billion in funds under management and more than 2,900 advisers using its services. NAB, which announced it had agreed to purchase Aviva Australia's ...

Corp bonds dominate UK sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... remain the most popular products among UK investors, with the asset class making up a quarter of the sales on the Cofunds platform in May. The latest figures from the UK-based investment platform found the top three selling funds included the M&G Strategic ...

Nicholas-Applegate closes Australian offices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... can offer a full range of services and investment strategies through the broad resources of the AGI Management Partners platform," she said. Kathy Rich, the group's managing director, will be maintaining client relationships in Australia. She heads the ...

ING adds cap protected funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
ING Australia has released two funds on the OneAnswer platform to provide investors with capital protection that rises as the value of fund the increases. The ING Protected Growth fund 2 provides 85 per cent protection on the funds and the Protected ...

T. Rowe Price to grow retail presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Having won investment mandates from major super funds, long running US fund manager T. Rowe Price plans to expand its services to retail investors. The Baltimore-based fund manager, which has just under $3 billion in funds under management in Australia ...

QIC adopts Sophis Value software

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
QIC has become the first Australian investment manager to implement the Sophis Value software platform. The Sophis Value platform is a multi-asset portfolio and risk management solution which will integrate a number of existing systems and provide an ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

FSP transitions to Oasis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... Management Ltd has transitioned the administration of FSP Portfolio Services' superannuation and IDPS products onto its platform. Oasis managing director Wayne Lowe said the transition was of the "largest transitions ever attempted in our industry." ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... this financial year, Aviva's SMA differs from many of its competitors on two points: one, it is available on Aviva's platform as an option which allows advisers to switch in and out of them the same way they've done with the products already on the platform. ...