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Reed fund not a concern: CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... Group Consolidated is 40 per cent owned by Lehman Brothers. Nathan Bode, Standard & Poor's analyst, said the decision to upgrade the fund's rating at its last review was driven by a number of factors including the provision of a working capital facility ...

St.George's tech gets a boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
St.George Bank's data warehousing practices are expected to go through a major upgrade following the installation of the Teradata 5550 platform and Teradata 12 database in Australia. The new system consists of a three-node Teradata 5550 platform in ...

A cyber home for advisers: MLC

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... launched its online applications services in May last year, but the re-launch of the website three months ago featured the upgrade to straight through processing (STP) facilities. "A key step for us was the improvement of our online applications. In ...

Northern Trust exposes fixed income assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Northern Trust's upgrades to its online reporting system promise to enable fixed income managers to accurately attribute performance in fixed income investments. The firm's Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS) team improved the reporting service ...

Suncorp numbers fail to shine

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Suncorp's wealth management and general insurance divisions have suffered profit falls due to poor markets and severe weather. In a statement released on the Australian Securities Exchange today, Suncorp confirmed that its wealth management arm reported ...

Coin extends MLC and Macq service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... Macquarie Life and Macquarie Cash Management Trust can now provide more online facilities to advisers following a tech upgrade with Coin. MLC platform users can now open accounts online, receive automatic updates of client portfolios and no longer need ...

Perpetual and BT large cap five star; S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
Perpetual and BT Financial Group were both awarded a five star rating from Standard & Poor's for the firms' large cap concentrated Australian equities management ability. The research and ratings firm awarded the rating for each firms talent to select ...

Life insurance made easy: AIG

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... AIG's campaign is targeted towards customers who are existing AGI Life's Priority Protection policy holders looking to upgrade to a more "realistic" level of cover. "While the traditional Aussie attitude is 'it won't happen to me', people should be aware ...

TOWER's business set to soar

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... said S&P's credit analyst Thomas Cherian. "The improvements boost the rating outlook to positive, reflecting a possible upgrade in the next 12 months. Factors which will influence a rating upgrade are evidence of the improved business and operational ...

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... Progress Software Corporation recently deployed Progress Apama 4.0 - the latest version of its flagship CEP platform. The upgrade uses new technology that offers business users a new dimension of real-time analytics, pattern and opportunity recognition ...