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Transparency in advice is key: Tucker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... agree with their adviser upfront what they're going to pay for the advice they're getting and they should have the right to stop paying the fee if they don't think their getting value for it." Virginia Dowd, chief executive of Money Solutions, said if ...

AIG's insurance web revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... big efficiency improvements," said Damien Mu, national manager business development at AIG. The new AIG website is a one-stop shop platform that streamlines administration, workflows, underwriting and even educational information, he said. "We can also ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
Profits from China's export boom continue driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but China's toxic toy story has taken on a new development that will likely impact its lucrative Christmas export trade. Manufacturing remains ...

Seniors vote against Westpoint

... investments," said National Seniors chief executive, Michael O'Neill. "To provide individual advice, National Seniors wants a 'one-stop-shop' for older Australians that provides information on investment options to help them improve their financial stability," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average fell 0.3 per cent as Takeda Pharmaceutical dropped after US health authorities recommended it stop some trials of a key drug, while chip-related issues lost ground on weak September orders. The Nikkei average fell 47.07 ...

AFS tailors record profits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Paraplanning Academy in November. "People are screaming for paraplanners. We can't find them in the marketplace. So, let's stop trying to fund them, let's go build them," he said.

Having another crack at online mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
As business models go, one of the all-time worst may be selling home loans on the internet. Countless online mortgage companies have come and gone. The big banks with active direct mortgage sales arms report that the contribution those businesses make ...

Credit crunch shows banks still lead the system

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... Asia Update luncheon. In itself this is not a problem, but its ramifications are, he said, especially if banks themselves stop lending money and the problem becomes a systemic lack of liquidity. "Since there is a great deal of uncertainty about the likely ...

Knee jerk over little Beige Book

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... telling the market what it already knew regarding the effect sub-prime has had on the housing sector, however that didn't stop the 'knee jerk' reaction. According to an Associated Press report, Walter Gerasimowicz, chairman and chief executive of Meditron ...

Battle lines drawn over defence force super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
... military personnel through higher taxation. But Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton dismissed the claim and told the ALP to stop scaremongering over military super. "The latest 'stunt statement' [is] designed to create fear and uncertainty within the defence ...