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LUCRF goes live with Bluedoor

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
The $2 billion LUCRF Super has gone live with its new administration platform, Bluedoor. The fund managed to go live five days ahead of schedule on April 15, and now uses the platform that is provided by DST Global Solutions. "We are already experiencing ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Legg Mason has closed its wholesale defensive trust, citing its FUM of less than $10 million made it impractical to continue offering the product. According to a May update of the fund, which has $9.5 million in funds under management, the fund manager ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

PGI fund placed on FirstChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Principal Global Investors' flagship property securities fund has been included in Colonial First State's platform, FirstChoice. Grant Forster, chief executive for Principal Global Investors Australian said the Principal Property Securities Fund has ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Tyndall's newest offering, the six-month old Tyndall Australian Share Income Fund, has won a place in three major platforms - signalling baby boomers' increasing appetite for income equity strategies. Craig Hobart, head of retail at Tyndall Investment ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... has launched the new communications policy to coincide with the launch of WealthSmart, the group's new superannuation platform and product suite. Besides the writing style guide, the group also reduced the size of its product disclosure statement (PDS) ...

Aspen fund holds 'recommended' rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... South Australian resource areas, reliance on tourism industry and a relatively high fee structure. Yet that didn't stop platform provider, netwealth, from adding the fund to the firm's investment and super wrap last month. The Aspen Parks Property fund ...

Netwealth drops 13 funds from menu

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... approaching netwealth regarding their ongoing strategies for their clients - prompting more reviews of the products on their platform. He pointed out that they've changed their wrap manager line-up more often in the last year than they've ever done before ...

Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... two years ago, the group has developed two key products that suited the local market: SMARTfund and a Discretionary and Platform Service (DPS). To date, the group has sealed distribution deals with BNP Paribas Securities Services and Old Broad Street ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... group platforms in the last month alone, including one that will see the firm distribute its products on the AMP SMA platform. AMP investors are now able to access three Australian equities portfolios - the MAx Incrementus, MAx ProVentus and MAx Virtus ...