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MIAA set for a new name

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) is set to change its name to reflect the evolving nature of the industry and the different areas of financial services its members are now active in. Phil Naylor, chief executive officer of the MIAA ...

LG teams up with ipac on succession

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
LG Financial Strategies, a Charter Financial Planning practice, has joined ipac's Equity Partners Program to help solve its succession planning challenges. LG Financial Strategies principal, Rohan Gulasekharam, considered a variety of succession planning ...

Finsia wins fin services education excellence award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Finsia's Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment has been awarded the Excellence in Education for Financial Services - Higher Education Category Award from the Financial Services Education Agency Australia (FSEAA). The FSEAA Quality Education ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon with a handful of stocks propping up the bourse. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 5.2 points higher to 5414.6, while the all ordinaries gained 4.5 points to 5381.6. On the Sydney ...

AFA conference raises $45,000 for MS research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The AFA partnership with Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia (MSRA) has already raised $45,000, enough to immediately launch a dedicated PhD research program. Jeremy Wright, executive director of MSRA, said, "This is a terrific outcome as the funds ...

First State Super 2006 SelectingSuper Fund of the Year

First State Superannuation Scheme has won the inaugural Rainmaker SelectingSuper Fund of the Year award among four other finalists. "This has been an historic year for First State Super. We attained public offer status in May, and have gained significant ...

Ironbridge rounds up $1b in PE capital raising

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Private equity manager Ironbridge Capital has just raised $1.05 billion from Australian and international institutional investors to fund their next round of investments. Ironbridge said the capital raising was supported by more than 40 institutional ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...

Boost your business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
The average age of advisory practice principals is 58 and half expect to exit their businesses within the next two years. To do this on terms that advisers will accept mean they have to convert their practices into businesses that can be operated by ...