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Optimum gets a pre-Christmas product upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
Asteron has announced a range of improvements to its Optimum corporate and personal super platforms, ranging from new investment choices, family-linked accounts and improved insurance cover. Jane Power, Asteron's head of product and marketing, said ...

TOWER adds two to its board

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
TOWER Australia Group has appointed two new independent directors, chairman Dr Keith Barton announced yesterday. Peter Lewinsky and Ralph Pliner have been appointed to the board of TOWER effective immediately. Dr Barton said the two new directors would ...

Coin adds 150 extras and goes STP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
Macquarie owned Coin Software has released an upgrade offering over 150 enhancements aimed at delivering improved flexibility as well as straight through processing (STP) support. Tony Graham, Coin managing director, said, "Automated datafeeds from ...

Suncorp-Promina integration costs lower than expected

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
Management of Suncorp and Promina believe integrating the two organisations will cost $355 million, slightly less than first estimated. Promina said last night in the booklet published in connection with the shareholder vote due in early 2007 that merger ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... performed well on reducing taxes. Similarly, 72 per cent believed that the State government had not reduced administrative red-tape sufficiently which was an increase from the figure of 63 per cent scored in the previous two surveys. With the skills ...

Sovereign MF building up its aged care portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Boutique property funds manager and developer Sovereign MF has acquired a $5.2 million aged care facility for its Sovereign Viculus Aged Care Property Fund. The Evanelia by the Sea aged care facility is located in Parkdale, Victoria, and is made up ...

Netwealth wins Investment Trends innovation award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
The netwealth platform has been named the 2006 most innovative platform by industry researcher Investment Trends. Michael Heine, netwealth managing director, said the result reflected the significant development the platform had undergone recently and ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower on a negative lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0920 AEDT, the December share price index contract was down six points at 5,468. In corporate news today, the details of a proposed ...

FUM climbs to $1.3 trillion trumping national debt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
Even though growth in Australian sourced funds under management (FUM) has slowed, it still reached $1.3 trillion at end September, enough to pay off our national debt and still leave us with plenty of spare change for Christmas. According to Rainmaker's ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
A report has just been released by Citigroup Australia consulting analyst Elaine Prior on the effect of climate change on companies within the ASX100. The analysis follows the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDPP4) which surveyed 225 investors globally with ...