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BT Financial scraps opt-out cover

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
BT Financial Group has withdrawn its planned integration of an 'opt-out' insurance cover across its corporate and personal super products after negative member feedback. The Base Cover insurance was scheduled to be included across the firm's super products ...

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 ...

ING Aus appoints new chief

A new chief executive, a new $50 million program and a new profit record are all in a day's work for ING Australia. Next month, ING Australia's chief executive officer Paul Bedbrook moves to an overseas posting and will be replaced by US-based ING executive ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Failing business confidence, courtesy of the US-led sub-prime credit crisis has diminished corporate appetite for listing on the main board of the ASX. According to Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) latest survey of sharemarket floats, the number of business ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Industry Super Network executive director David Whiteley said any decision the Government takes in the upcoming May budget to increase superannuation contributions needs to be grounded in structural reforms to increase the "efficiency and fairness" ...

FPA to offer Life Risk course

The Financial Planning Association is to provide accreditation in speciality professional areas, with the Life Risk Advisers program the first off the rank. FPA chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch said the FPA has developed the new education program to enable ...

Austock teams with Cantor

When financial services group Austock Group decided to look for a partner in the US, it went all the way to the top when it signed an alliance with financial services giant Cantor Fitzgerald. Austock now has a direct link to Wall Street when it paired ...

S&P recruits IOOF exec after Ibbetson's exit

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... had contributed significantly to the firm, and that IOOF was "reviewing their options going forward." S&P's Hoven said: "We plan to supplement Paul's appointment with an additional two consulting professionals, which will bring our integrated funds research ...

Uni to offer SMSF degree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) trustee education will be boosted with plans to develop postgraduate and certificate programs in potentially half a dozen universities around Australia. "Adelaide University has developed an SMSF certificate and masters ...

Suncorp/Tyndall shifts to enhanced indexing

Just more than three months after Suncorp/Tyndall's Australian equities team left to set up a boutique, the group has signed up Russell's transition management team to run its $3 billion-plus equities portfolio under a new enhanced indexing model. Managing ...