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Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... about 50 per cent in New Zealand. McGuinness said: "Our cost of funds makes it hard to defend the product in the broker channel. The economies are different without alliance partners." The $2 billion reverse mortgage market has hit the wall this year ...

Private wealth managers bank on CRM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
The need for bigger and better integrated customer management technologies is on the increase as private wealth managers jostle for a bigger share of the high net worth investors market. Eric Moore, director of sales and marketing at StayinFront Australia ...

IAG restructures and jumps on web

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... Insurance, to explore a full range of products based on customer needs and market opportunity without being constrained by channel conflict issues," said Wilkins. "We also believe that by streamlining the structure we'll be able to accelerate the momentum ...

Bad markets, good advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Financial planners may be the surrogate bearer of bad news as markets continue to shed their value but one dealer group has stepped up to say there's no better time to talk to clients than when the going is tough. Robert Thomas, head of research and ...

Singapore property a winner

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Property specialist LaSalle Investment has singled out Singapore as a key investment channel in the Asia-Pacific region and noted that the country's high grade commercial and retail properties will still enjoy solid growth despite the general market ...

Synchron rolls out new IT system

... potential clients can find an adviser by address, name or product. Secondly, the group has also launched a separate web channel called SynchronAdviser.net, where advisers can access nine different business areas including sections on marketing, sales ...

AXA to invest $30m in life insurance

... importantly, into improving their service and client relationships. "Share of new business sales in the intermediated channel is being won and lost on the basis of service and relationships. These two components of the proposition have become the most ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Household wealth in Australia is now estimated to be $5.1 trillion after jumping 12 per cent last year, reveals the latest analysis from Treasury. The figures are contained in a Treasury Roundup discussion paper by analysts Anthony Goldbloom and Andrew ...

Seeking six figures online

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
A new recruitment website that links high income job seeking-hopefuls directly with employers is due to be launched next week, hoping to change the face of the high-end employment scene. Six Figures ( www.sixfigures.com.au ) is the brainchild of HR ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... Symond said Aussie was writing $1 billion a month in new loans - $950 million of those came through the company's brokerage channel and $50 million through Macquarie funding. "They have said they will continue to provide funding but I would expect it ...