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FPA to provide PI insurance to members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is calling for submissions to provide group indemnity insurance for its members by June this year. Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said prior to this action, planners would either find their own indemnity ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Federal Government's Future Fund has confirmed it will be looking at environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as part of its investment strategies in 2008. The government-backed $59.6 billion fund was highlighted by Australian Conservation ...

Rev mortgages new sales down 10pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The SEQUAL Trowbridge Deloitte Reverse Mortgage Study has revealed $466 billion worth of reverse mortgage loans were sold in Australia last year, a 10 per cent fall compared to 2006. While new sales were down, the study found that overall, the sector ...

St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
St George Group has appointed David Curry to general manager of margin lending. Curry was previously St George head of payment solutions and held positions at Westpac, Rothchilds Australia Asset Management and Ernst & Young before joining the bank three ...

Property before super: IPSOS

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Despite all the government and industry initiatives to encourage Australians to save money through their super, new research shows many name property as their preferred retirement savings plan. Speaking at a CMFS conference in Brisbane yesterday, research ...

Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Warren Chant of Chant West said super funds with $5 billion or less "should not be in existence", but others are calling his claims over the top. Heated debates on the role of fund ratings firms at yesterday's CMSF conference saw Chant ply the notion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply higher as Wall Street surged after The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
SecuritEase - the software provider that was falsely reported as responsible for broker Tricom's woes - suffers another blow when a new client, broking firm Tolhurst, opted to re-sign with its previous IT provider, GBST. In April last year, Tolhurst ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Grain prices climbing to record levels, combined with encouraging rainfall, is stirring excitement in the agribusiness sector for farmers and investors. "Farmers should be planning to cash-in on the predicted high grain prices and plant substantial ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase chief executive and chairman Jamie Dimon has said that the group is taking reasonable risk and have built in an appropriate margin for error in the proposed acquisition of Bear Stearns. Local banking stocks are down today after news of ...