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Perpetual appoints Haramis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
Perpetual Private Clients has appointed ex ANZ head of advisory and risk George Haramis as Victorian state manager. Haramis' experience includes managing and building financial services businesses, establishing both retail and wholesale distribution ...

TOWER buys InsuranceLine

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
TOWER Australia ramps up its market share in the direct-to-market life insurance sector after it acquired InsuranceLine, one of the largest direct distributor of life insurance products in the country. TOWER Australia bought InsuranceLine for $136 million ...

Aviva Investors forms $488bn FM

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Aviva yesterday launched its newly integrated global asset management business Aviva Investors - a $488 billion investment powerhouse with 10 companies rolled under one brand. Aviva announced in February that Australian based Portfolio Partners and ...

Minnow mortgage manager wants to be big fish

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Essentially, the current Firstfolio business model is to buy small mortgage manager businesses for the shopfront distribution channel. "We actually started off with the idea that we wanted to be a financial services firm, but if you don't have a large ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... approximately 13 per cent," said the report. Meanwhile CalPERS will continue to monitor the situation and keep an open channel of communication with its agents and borrowing counterparts. "We anticipate lifting these loan restrictions once the market ...

Sun Life appoints Goodall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
Sun Life Financial Asia appointed Mike Goodall as vice president of regional business development and bancassurance. Goodall was previously ANZ financial planning general manager and more recently, managing director at financial services firm, Inpro ...

Cuscal targets super as profit soars

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
Cuscal has reported an operating profit after tax of $18.7 million for the year ending 30 June - marking a year of continued growth as the firm expands its services in the superannuation sector. The $18.7 million figure marks its fifth consecutive years ...

New turbo charged adviser account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
ANZ and E*TRADE teamed up to provide financial advisers with a single cash management account that can buy and sell shares and, at the same time, earn high interest. ANZ V2+Broking allows advisers direct access to client funds with the ability tp earn ...

Segmentation prompts industry warning

MICHAEL HOBBS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... the ASFA Communications Forum. Bowerman said the growing use of technology is why mobile devices will become the next channel for the super industry to communicate to its members. However, he warned that "just because you can do new things, it doesn't ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... down. "The view in the investment community is that Wesfarmers handled it badly. In other circumstances, such as when Channel Nine was sold and when private equity bought Investa, investors have been compensated. We were always the last to know anything ...