Telstra Super's purchase of the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) last December will improve its ability to insource more investment tasks, according to the $11.5 billion fund's chief investment officer, Steve Merlicek. Telstra Super's growing internal investment team had "outgrown" the selfdeveloped system it previously used, which was based on Microsoft Access Database and required a high level of manual processing, Merlicek said. Charles River claims the IMS will give Telstra Super streamlined trade order management, real-time pre-trade compliance testing and monitoring, and access to Charles River's FIX (Financial Information eXchange) network to facilitate real-time electronic trading.