Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1231 - 1240 of 1395 results for "MAG"

Statewide hits $2b FUM milestone

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
South Australia's largest industry super fund, Statewide, has swelled past $2 billion in funds under management, a growth of 29 per cent. Statewide chief executive Frances Magill said strong markets, growth in membership and a higher inflow of funds ...

ASFA awards Who's Who

ARIA, Sunsuper and Plum Financial were among the winners at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Melbourne last night. The ASFA (Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia) Communications Awards was designed to help raise the overall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open slightly lower today. At 0646 AEST, the September Share Price Index on the Sydney futures exchange was down 15 points to 6,134 on 1,733 contracts. Company earnings continue to dominate market news with ...

Magnitude appoints new head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
Magnitude Financial Planning has appointed Scot Andrews into the new role of practice delivery manager in Merit Wealth. The role will require Andrews to provide dealer support services to the Merit Financial Planning network. Andrews previously served ...

Dixon in three-part expansion push

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Dixon Advisory joins the big league after it added 22 advisers with $1.5 billion in funds under advice (FUA) to its network, appointed former Bulletin editor Max Walsh to its investment committee and completed a business re-branding. Former ABN AMRO ...

Not made in China

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
Profits from China's export boom are driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but while the price is right, quality issues go far beyond a toxic toy story. Manufacturing remains China's main growth driver, attributable to its ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
The Australian market is expected to suffer further declines when it opens this morning, though not of last week's magnitude. At 0802 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was down three points to 5,930 on a volume of ...

ASFA changes guard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
Pauline Vamos, former principal of Vamos Consulting, has been appointed new chief executive of ASFA, starting early September 2007. ASFA's membership base made up of industry funds, corporate, public sector and retail funds, service providers and individual ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
Australian sharemarkets suffered a $48 billion bloodbath yesterday after the 'millionaire's factory' warned of $300 million losses wiping out a quarter of the value of two of its investment funds. Bear Stearns, already embarrassed by the implosion of ...

Statewide rolls out automatic insurance cover

South Australia-based super fund Statewide has come up with a simple but clever answer to the nation's underinsurance problems - give members a better insurance deal without the cumbersome paperwork and medical checks. The fund's chief executive Frances ...