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Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

Financial institutions need to get serious about their IT security after the latest Deloitte Global Security Survey found that more than three-quarters of the world's leading 150 finance groups suffered a serious security breach in the last 12 months. ...

VFMC staff won't be re-hired

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
High level staff at the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) will not be re-hired after being asked to re-apply for their jobs just a month ago. As part of a restructure of the organisation, staff on the investment team were last month told ...

Coin upgrades insurance software

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
Coin Software has announced the imminent release of the upgraded version 2.5 of its Coin Office software, incorporating a new insurance module called "Inc". Production of the upgrade began in October last year and will be rolled out to existing clients ...

Lonsec, Rainmaker in software distribution deal

Lonsec Research has announced a deal with Rainmaker Information that will see it incorporate Rainmaker's web-based MarketPlace information platform into Lonsec's online financial planner research service. Steve Newnham, national marketing and distribution ...

ASFA slams proposal to cut super

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has slammed a Government task force suggestion to cut employer super contributions, a move it says will drastically reduce part-time and contract workers' superannuation savings. The proposal ...

Go overseas, but go carefully: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
Doing the rounds of Australia this week to promote its new open-ended funds, international property giant LaSalle Investment Management was talking up international property opportunities but warned investors to tread carefully. LaSalle said Australian ...

Super funds keep tills ringing at Harris Alternatives

Superannuation funds are ramping up their fund of hedge funds (FOHF) allocation with IXIS-owned Harris Alternatives reporting an astonishing six-fold increase in funds from $170 million two years ago to $1.17 billion currently. Harris Alternatives is ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Grange Securities is rebuilding its equities team with the appointment of a director to head the institutional equities team. Peter Talbot, formerly a director of Patersons, head of domestic equities sales at JP Morgan and before that at County NatWest/Saloman ...

AIST and CMSF merger to strengthen trustee services

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
At its AGM held on the Gold Coast yesterday, AIST released a discussion paper canvassing a potential merger with CMSF and the long-term viability of super trustee organisations. Citing the reducing number of super funds as the primary catalyst for the ...

Global REITs on the go: ipac

AXA-owned ipac is talking up global property, but not just any property and not just with anyone, quick to point out that it is choosing its partners carefully as it tilts more of its allocation to global REITs. Partnering with US based CBRE, ipac hopes ...