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Financial planners to improve soft skills

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Financial planners can now learn behavioural skills to help them sell insurance to clients through a new training course offered by AXA. The Risk Learning Program has two main components, one that teaches advisers to discuss life, TPD and income protection ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... mammoth deception that went on that gave the world a new acronym - GFC. There were no significant data out overnight, no compass to steer the global financial world north or south. And true to my mother's constant warning when I was a little boy - "if ...

CBA launches capital protection funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched a new capital-protected investment, Capital Series Compass, which offers investors a choice of two investment themes - an Australian share market or Australian/Hong Kong blend. The Capital Series Compass offers ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC said it may offer exemptions to existing government rules on 'frozen' mortgage funds that will allow mortgage fund operators to release funds to unitholders based on 'hardship grounds'. This relief will apply on a case-by-case ...

Gen X-ers choose brokers over banks

... for emergencies, only 26 per cent had actually used those funds for this purpose. The research was conducted by Insight Compass between May and June this year and involved more than 300 mortgagors and at least 45 phone interviews in each state. Michelle ...

Regulators clamp down on illegal super schemes

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have found that the number of promoters of illegal access of super schemes has increased and warned consumers that those who sign up face tough legal ...

Antares teams with Lodestar for absolute returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... located in the southern hemisphere. Lodestar is also named after a heavenly body or derived from lodestone, part of a compass which points to the pole star. The new fund has so far lived up to its stellar name and according to Morgan should continue ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

... group is looking for a successor fund with further details ready by August. Industry views Travis Morien, director at Compass Financial Planning and one of the small but loyal base of advisers who use the platform is disappointed about the news. "I would ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... 1.12 points at 1296.62. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 5.75 points at 2333.27. LONDON - British shares rose, led by Compass - after the catering group sold one of its units - and getting a further boost from mining and metals stocks as commodity ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2005
... week's steep losses as oil majors BP and Royal Dutch Shell bounced in anticipation of results this week, while caterer Compass Group gained on bid talk. The FTSE 100 index closed 65.5 points higher at 5207.6 in a rally many had seen as predictable in ...