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St.George's tech gets a boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
St.George Bank's data warehousing practices are expected to go through a major upgrade following the installation of the Teradata 5550 platform and Teradata 12 database in Australia. The new system consists of a three-node Teradata 5550 platform in ...

Advisers open doors to $50k clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Advisers are willing to take on clients with funds as little as $50,000 in a bid to win new business amidst tough market conditions, new research shows. A new survey by Nielson, commissioned by ING Australia, noted that an increasing number of advisers ...

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 ...

ASIC bans former Money Matters adviser

ASIC STATEMENT  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Victoria-based Ian Bristow, one of the financial advisers who recommended Westpoint products to clients, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following a long drawn out ASIC investigation. ASIC alleged that Bristow "dishonestly" ...

Pengana wins ex-Rubicon investors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Ex- Rubicon investment managers Antonio Meroni and Tony Wolfe's have brought more than just their expertise to Pengana when they joined in May - they have also ferried across some of Rubicon's largest global institutional investors keen for a slice ...

A cyber home for advisers: MLC

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... company is looking to pour more resources into improving and consolidating its adviser services as part of its long-term plan. "It's about making it easier for advisers to deal with us over the web. At the moment advisers need to go to more than one ...

Planners demand global fund with conviction

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Advance Asset Management is extending its relationship with US based Tradewinds Global Investors to provide retail investors' with access to a high conviction global equities fund. The Advance Tradewinds Global Equities fund's strategy aims to identify ...

Austock curbs expansion plans

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Austock Group's business restructure continues after it posted full year profits down 27 per cent to $8.1 million - although the group is partly redeemed by its $33 million in cash reserves, zero operations in stock lending and better-than-expected ...

Rate cut? maybe not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
There we have it, capital investment by Australian companies - past and planned -- remains solid. This underscores the domestic economy's resilience to the turmoil in the credit markets and the weakening global economy. However, instead of completely ...

AMP's profits down 2pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
AMP Limited has posted a two per cent fall in its underlying profit to $437 million after weathering challenging investment market conditions, but its financial services division survived the storm to report a three per cent increase in operating earnings. ...