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BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Plum wins mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Plum Financial Services has won mandates to administer the super arrangements of the Victorian Organisation Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia). The deals will see Plum administer services to the two funds which have ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

Top 10 budget quotes

Financial Standard sifts through a record haul of budget commentary to highlight the industry's thinking on the government's budget announcement last night. "Commonsense has prevailed with the non-concessional contribution cap remaining unchanged." ...

Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
Listed Australian companies can do more to convince overseas fund managers and pension funds to invest in the local market, with some prospective investors complaining of inadequate company websites and substandard investor relations. Local fund managers ...

Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured investors about bank balance sheets. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 35 points ...

Cameron hires former AMP head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Former AMP Capital Investors head of private clients Giles Craig has been appointed managing director of Cameron Stockbrokers Limited. Craig was previously head of private clients at AMP Capital Investors and prior to that, held senior positions at ...

Aladdin combines FI and eq

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
The next decade will see a consolidation of investment management information systems, leading to toolsets capable of dealing with all asset classes, a prime example of which is BlackRock's Aladdin fixed interest platform. Nigel Allfrey, managing director ...