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Vision Super eyes banking within super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Vision Super makes history in the industry fund sector when it paired up with transactional banking provider Cuscal to offer fund members a banking service to access their super savings. Vision Super's fund development manager David Moxon said members ...

QIEC Super enhances services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... remain competitive. From January, the super fund is providing personal financial advice through Queensland Teachers Credit Union Financial Planning in association with Outlook Financial Planning. Prior to this initiative, QIEC Super could only provide ...

Snowball taps mining rich towns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Snowball financial planning subsidiary, Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions and tap into the latter firm's cashed up mining and construction members. Big Sky Financial ...

ME to gain market share

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... Beck, Members Equity Bank head of corporate and social responsibility, said it was not considering purchasing any credit union or building society. "We feel that on a couple of different fronts we're extremely well positioned and we're setting up for ...

More ins than outs at VTCU

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Victoria Teachers Credit Union is relatively immune to the credit crisis, in the enviable position of holding a deposit book a fifth bigger than its lending book. Net profit increased 26 per cent from $7.9 million to $9.9 million during financial year ...

The end is nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... promised to temporarily guarantee bank refinancing and a host of other measures in order to ease credit in the European Union. The measures include temporarily guaranteeing bank lending for up to five years, and taking equity stakes in distressed banks. ...

HESTA appoints three

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... years as a HESTA member education manager. Saxton held various positions within the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union's Western Australia Branch for eight years, and between December 2002 and 2006, he represented the LHMU as a HESTA director. ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
AMP Bank, NSW Teachers Credit Union (NTCU) and Victorian Teachers Credit Union (VTCU) are the three institutions that received the thumbs up in a new report on First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs) by consumer body CHOICE. FHSAs are deposit savings accounts ...

NECU videos go high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Global video specialist firm TANDBERG has won a contract with the New England Credit Union (NECU) to provide video-to-desktop services - upgrading the credit union's customer service while slashing up to $300,000 in operational costs. TANDBERG has been ...

Barclays UK takes life insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
UK based Barclays Bank penned a deal with Norwich Union to provide life insurance products for the retail market online, a strategy which contrasts the approach of many Australian insurance firms. The deal means Barclays will offer both level and decreasing ...