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Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... also see growth in business investment as rising company sales and profits are reinvested into expansion and improved efficiency. Government purse strings are also loosening in favour of public sector infrastructure. Lehman's overall outlook for capital ...

XPLAN incorporates Zenith research

... Zenith. "At a practical level, the integration of information directly to the adviser's desktop is core to a practice's efficiency and we are keenly focused on increasing this in as many areas as we can," said Andrew Walsh, general manager at IRESS Wealth ...

ASFA releases standardised fund data forms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... is to allow super funds to provide investment information in the same format to all agencies and thereby improve the efficiency of the process without compromising on the level of information delivered," said ASFA. The initiative follows an explosion ...

Government offers industry the simple life

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... enable improved access to financial advice, enhance investor participation, reduce compliance costs and improve business efficiency."

Private equity redefines mum-and-dad investing

... anything, the existence of an alternative to the traditional listed vehicle should be greeted as positive for economic efficiency," he said. He also dismissed concerns about the rise in gearing and argued that it is happening at a time when corporate ...

IFSA toughens up conflicts and ethics standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
... essentially the bedrock upon which a common set of values, shared by IFSA members, is based. "IFSA seeks to advance efficiency, integrity and consumer confidence in the Australian financial services industry by periodically evaluating and improving the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... because of a variety of reasons such as that they are indigenous, low-skilled or mature-aged. In terms of economic efficiency, such data begs the question as to why the country is importing so much labour when there is so much here laying idle.

Challenger finds right address with QAS

... due to improved data quality, and the duplication costs of re-handling this mail. QAS will also provide incremental efficiency improvements in our data handling processes by enabling us to update addresses in OneVue and Saleslogix." Asked why they chose ...

Another appointment in AFS restructure

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... Turnbull to the AFS management team, I am confident that he will contribute positively to the business and operational efficiency of our New South Wales and ACT practices, as well as attracting additional advisers to the regional network." Prior to joining ...

Data quality a global problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... straight through processing (STP), said the survey report. Fifty-three per cent of the survey respondents said improved efficiency as an important driving force for implementing a risk management solution, suggesting that risk management is no longer ...