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Westpac unveils new trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... investment services and products. The new website offers customers home page customisation, smarter portfolio management, new research, better dynamic charting and intuitive display of rich market data including full trading details, price and volume ...

HSBC Bank hires Contango director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Public Finance Corporation and a member of the Advisory Board to the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She has also held roles at BHP, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Rothschild Australia ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... score of their individual property investments with their environmental real estate targets. The think tank behind the research, the European Centre for Corporate Engagement at Maastricht University, said that they hope the benchmarking will serve as ...

IT growth and spending to slow

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... in Australia. Ovum's recently released model "North American Market Trends 2009: IT services forecast" co-author and research director John Madden believes vendors who are planning on "pent-up customer demand to fuel substantial growth" in 2010 should ...

Cannae Capital joins Investors Mutual

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... under management. Hugh Giddy, former managing director at Cannae, has been appointed senior portfolio manager and head of research at IML. Giddy previously worked at Perennial Value Management as a portfolio manager. Three other Cannae analysts; Daniel ...

Emerging markets look expensive: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
David Bassanese's exchange traded fund (ETF) research found emerging market stocks are starting to get expensive but it remains bullish on local equities. The Pennywise Investment January report said the price-to-book value across emerging market stocks ...

130/30 strategies slammed for high fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
Some Australian equity extension fund managers, which include 130/30 investment strategies, are charging excessive fees for poor performance, according a report. The van Eyk Australian Equities Extension Sector review of more than 10 fundamental and ...

Retirement savings gap to reshape Aussie workforce

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... in their current job or career. Fabian Ross, head of wealth management at GESB, the super fund that commissioned the research, said that for many people, having enough savings by the age of 65 remains an elusive dream made harder by rising life expectancies. ...

Shadow shop reveals service gap among planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Shadow Shop Report, compared the customer experience of IFFP businesses against IFAs and banking channel advisers. The research followed 200 people involved in 480 mystery shopping events across 19 of the industry's major dealer groups between November ...

Macquarie rolls out capital protection

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... investors capital protection at maturity. Macquarie has had a relationship with Winton for four years. Winton's approach to research and risk-management has seen the firm deliver an average compound annual return of 17.57 per cent from its inception ...