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Mortgage Choice booms, invests in planners

AAP AND ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
A strong housing market has helped home lender Mortgage Choice deliver its best financial results ever with a record number of loan settlements. The lender's net profit rose 5.8% to $19.8 million in the year to June 30, up from $18.7 million in the ...

IOOF reports record growth

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
Financial services company IOOF has reported double digit growth in its underlying net profit after tax (UNPAT), reporting a result of $123 million for the full year ending 30 June. UNPAT was up a record 13%, while net profit after tax (NPAT) was $101.3 ...

MyState sees small growth in profits

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
Banking and wealth management company MyState has reported a small rise in profit for the full year to 30 June. Statutory after-tax profit stood at $29.6 million for the year to the end of June. This result is a 3.9% improvement on last year's $28.5 ...

Movers and shakers

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Australia's largest advice business AMP will require that all of its financial planners hold a post-graduate degree, a move that aims to increase trust in advisers. All existing and new AMP advisers must hold post-graduate qualifications such as a Certified ...

Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Countplus failed to achieve its profit guidance, revealing a 1.7% drop in its net profit after tax (NPAT) due to the sale of a poor performing business and the restructure of another. In its full year 2014 results announcement to the ASX, Countplus ...

A quarter of global instos plan to grow alternatives investment teams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
More than a quarter of global institutional investors expect to grow their alternative investment teams over the next two years, according to the latest survey by Preqin. The specialist research house asked 380 global institutions who are active in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
The share market remains at its highest level since the GFC due to well received company earnings and a positive lead from Wall Street. But it dipped slightly in late morning trade after the latest reading on manufacturing activity in China fell below ...

Dimensional latest to join Calastone network

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Global asset manager Dimensional Fund Advisors has become the latest manager to join Calastone's automated global transaction network service. Calastone specialises in automating manual processes for the managed fund and superannuation sectors. Previously ...