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Challenger teams up with Colony

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Challenger Financial Services has signed a partnership agreement with US-based real estate funds specialist Colony Capital in a deal that involves $64 million in Challenger share options. As part of the partnership, Colony bought an option of over 57.1 ...

Centric buys PKF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Centric Wealth has made its final pre-listing acquisition, purchasing planner group PKF Financial Services. The company conducts PKF's financial planning business in Sydney and Brisbane and has approximately $400 million in assets under advice across ...

Labor supports financial services export push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
The Shadow Minister for Trade and Regional Development, Simon Crean, has announced the Labor party's support for the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) May discussion paper on exporting Australia's financial services. Speaking at an ...

Cuscal branches outside credit unions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
While becoming a leading player in the wholesale supply of banking style transactional services to credit unions has boosted Cuscal's profit, the powerplay is how it positions them to extend their reach into other institutions and even super funds. ...

AMP loses share to banks in risk insurance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl acknowledged yesterday that life companies faced a challenge from the banks in one of their traditional strongholds, the risk insurance market. Mohl also announced he would leave AMP at the end of 2007 after five years ...

GoldLink loses luster

Fund manager GoldLink is the latest victim of the volatile sharemarket and has announced on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it will wind down its investment portfolios and return money to investors. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's Fund ...

HFA profits up 389pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
HFA Accelerator Plus, a listed investment fund that specialises in absolute return strategies, has posted a near quadrupling of profits in the last financial year. This increase is on the back of a 253 per cent increase in revenue on its previous full ...

Matrix re-signs Oasis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
Matrix Planning Solutions has re-signed a five-year deal with financial services platform Oasis Asset Management. Matrix will continue to use the Oasis platform to offer its superannuation master trust and investment portfolio service to the retail ...

ASIC to tighten debenture regulations

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a consultation paper proposing tighter regulation of the unlisted, unrated debenture market following the collapse of companies like Westpoint and ACR. The paper, unlisted, unrated ...

BT cuts wrap prices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... cost savings to our investors who link their accounts. For example, a typical BT SuperWrap investor with a $200,000 super plan and a $300,000 pension plan would see cost savings of around 10 per cent on their annual account keeping fees." All BT Wrap ...