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CommInsure boosts retail life offering

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
CommInsure has unveiled a number of upgrades to its retail life insurance offering, including the ability for customers to use their super fund to pay for their insurance premiums. As part of a partnership between CommInsure and Colonial First State's ...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board upgrades tech

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
One of Canada's largest institutional investors has adopted new technology as it looks to move in-house certain investment operations previously outsourced to a third party. The $130 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the world's ...

Russell readies for intra-fund advice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
Russell Investments is on track to roll out intra-fund advice as part of its administration model upgrades. According to a press statement released this morning, Russell announced it would introduce intra-fund advice to support its member engagement ...

AXA Aus launches adviserweb

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... continually improving the way advisers can transact with AXA but today's launch of 'adviserweb' is the most fundamental upgrade they've done in five years of IT development. The site saves advisers time and resources by allowing them to use a single ...

S&P rerates former 452 funds

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned four-star 'new' ratings to two Colonial First State funds previously managed by 452 Capital. The funds had been downgraded to sell by S&P in August following the shock departure of key 452 capital executives. ...

Russell upgrades insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Russell Investments rolled out a series of technology upgrades and new insurance solutions, which the company said would help address Australia's 'she'll be right' attitude towards insurance. The upgrades will be applied to the Russell SuperSolution ...

BT Wrap lifts fog on model portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Dealer groups can have a better understanding of how their financial advisers use 'model portfolios', cash and equities for their clients through key upgrades to BT Wrap this month. In a three-year project that's costing over $18 million, the team behind ...

May the FORCe be with you

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Fiducian has upgraded its adviser software and the new version has increased planner productivity by as much as 50 per cent, the group claimed. Launched at the recent adviser development day in Sydney, the Fiducian Online Resource Centre (FORCe) now ...

Westpac online investors get global access

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... targeted through this new products launch, enabling them to trade these new products online. The brand has embarked on an upgrade throughout 2010 by introducing a range of new products to date including upgraded research and greater portfolio management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... Fortescue Metals Group had put on six cents to $5.03. Rio Tinto said it would invest $US803 million ($A859 million) to upgrade its Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia. Rio Tinto also said it had used the maturation of a credit facility to increase ...