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BT Super for Life wins clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
BT Financial Group's online super product, BT Super for Life is gaining traction, with almost 100 new customers signing on each day. A BT Financial Group spokesperson said the unique online banking and super integration in addition to its simple functionality ...

Managed accounts hold trumpcard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... Account Providers (iMap) and chief executive of Dais Financial Services, also said the timing may be ripe for investors to switch into an SMA because of the end of the bull run. "We've had a bull market running at 30 per cent per annum for the last five ...

Alternatives cause valuation headaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... legalsuper chief executive. The trouble is, many investors may not be aware of the impacts of these complexities when they switch investment options or exit funds invested in alternative assets. "They need to be conscious of these issues particularly ...

Unemployment rises to 4.1 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... employment gains more favour across the economy. The ABS said part times job grew by twice the number of full time jobs. The switch may also be impacting gender-based employment as male unemployment jumped 0.3 percentage points to 3.9 per cent while ...

Prime Super switches custody

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
Prime Super has appointed NAB Custody Services (NCS) after switching asset consultants to change the fund's investment strategy. Prime Super chose Access Capital Advisers to provide asset consultancy services in November 2006, which resulted in a review ...

Virgin Money drops out of cards

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... yesterday hands the 550,000 accounts to Westpac and gives the bank until June next year to persuade those customers to switch to a Westpac card before it has to stop using the Virgin name. Virgin has lost a customer base that it hoped to use to cross-sell ...

Govt moves in on legacy products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
Federal minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, has announced plans to develop a rationalisation mechanism to help customers move from an outdated investment product to a new one, at little or no cost. "The operation of legacy products ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
IRESS' planning software, XPLAN, has recorded the highest level of satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform ...

ASIC zones in on accountants pushing SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Accountants that are advising Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) clients without the proper license will be penalised accordingly, Louise DuPre, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) adviser said. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals ...

Aurora Buy-Write wins fans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
Hedging share portfolios with put options attracted little attention when the markets were roaring but 'Black January' changed all that, claims Aurora Funds Management. "We are getting a lot of interest now since our trusts were hedged with put option ...