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Premium outlines growth strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Premium Wealth Management is creating a mortgage and risk insurance business, boosting its paraplanner support services and accelerating its recruitment strategy. In addition, the dealer group plans to develop a learning and professional development ...

Avanteos offers defensive options

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Avanteos has ramped up its platform features by adding term deposits to its existing range of defensive investments. Avanteos' new additions follow adviser and client demand for more competitive defensive investments as market volatility continues to ...

Macquarie posts 23pct profit hike

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
Macquarie Group has reported a 23 per cent rise in net profit after tax to $1.8 billion on the previous year, buoyed by strong returns from its investment banking deals and equity-related businesses in Asia-Pacific and Europe. The group's assets under ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The Australian share market was lower at noon, led by Macquarie Group, which hinted that its record annual profit may not be repeated due to volatile financial markets. The miners also fell after industrial metals prices declined overnight. At 1200 ...

Share performance gap widens after tax

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
There are more reasons why investors should put their savings in a super fund after a new report found a substantial difference between the returns of funds taxed within super and under a personal tax rate. The Russell/ASX Long Term Investing study ...

AUD hits 24 year high against greenback

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Australian dollar this morning hit a 24 year high against the US greenback. The AUD was trading at 95.5 cents, up 2 per cent since the beginning of the month and up a staggering 16.2 per cent since this time last year. Against the Euro and the Chinese ...

Banks enjoy mortgage windfall, sort of

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
The reverse mortgage market is in the doldrums following the withdrawal from the market by one lender and sharp cutbacks by a couple of others. But brokers report that while there is still demand from people who need access to funds even though applications ...

Advisers change tack on life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
Smarter planning software programs have triggered a fundamental change in how financial advisers provide life insurance to clients, according to an Investment Trends report. The report surveyed 1,600 advisers in November last year and found that of ...

US fund giant MFS lands down under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
With the confusion around its namesake MFS (now Octaviar) out of the way, US fund manager MFS, which boasts more than $300 billion in FUM, has set up an office in Sydney. The opening further cements MFS' longstanding distribution partnership with BNP ...

AMP roadmap to growth

AMP's newly-appointed chief executive Craig Dunn has outlined the group's five-pronged growth plan ahead of the predicted doubling of the superannuation industry's size within the next 10 years. Speaking at the group's Annual General Meeting (AGM) today ...