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IRESS signs Asgard and Asteron

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
IRESS Market Technology has expanded its service after entering into key partnerships with Asgard Wealth Solutions and Asteron and upgrading its modelling and insurance products. Asgard Wealth Solutions (Asgard) partnered with IRESS Market Technology ...

Text ANZ for your account balance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
ANZ has seized the crown of being the first bank in Australia to offer customers a text-based mobile phone banking service. ANZ will be the first of the big four lending institutions to offer text-based banking facilities through its TXT Banking system. ...

ITG launches Triton Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The Investment Technology Group (ITG) has released its buy side product, Triton, to Australian traders giving them access to Asia Pacific equity markets. Triton allows buy-side traders to trade more than 30,000 equities across Asia Pacific using a simple ...

Perpetual upgrades unit registry systems

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Perpetual is the first client to implement consulting firm Bravura's wrap application and use Sonata Business Services - an end-to-end business solution delivering enterprise workflow management and document imaging across the fund manager's back office. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
The Australian share market continued to extended its comeback at noon after Tuesday's slide, following a positive lead from Wall Street and higher commodity prices. At 1215 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was up 166.9 points, or 2.99 per cent, to 5,747.3 ...

Water fund washes onto BT wraps

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Liontamer's KBC Global Water Fund has been added to the BT wrap, heralding the next step of the fund's Australian footprint in the water-investment sector. Liontamer head of distribution, Simon Padley, advised that the fund has been accepted on both ...

Morgan Stanley launches new FX strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has moved to capitalise on the shortfalls of the world's most liquid market through the launch of its FX alpha strategy for Australian investors. The strategy has been designed as an actively managed, risk-controlled ...

New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A better alignment of interest between planners and their clients could be achieved through performance-based fees - similar to those charged by fund managers - but not all planners are convinced. NAB Financial Planning's recent decision to charge fixed ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The Australian share market remained firmly in positive territory at noon, boosted by financial stocks, in light trading as cautious investor stayed on the sidelines. At 1217 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was up 120.5 points, or 2.23 per cent, to 5,532.8 ...

Aviva offers auto re-weighting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Aviva has added an automatic re-weighting feature in its Navigator platform that allows advisers to give their clients a more tax effective portfolio. The feature allows advisers to re-weight investment funds in a client's portfolio back to its target ...