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Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
The hints haven't exactly been subtle, but State Governments are finally moving to fast-track more than $40 billion in infrastructure projects. We've had serious customer complaints from our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel ...

One in five choose shares: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
Despite the huge market gains of the last few years, only 17 per cent of the general public believe shares are the best place for savings, according to the latest Russell Market Barometer report. Based on figures from the Westpac Consumer Confidence ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
What a difference a week can make. A little more than a week after the Dow Jones average hit a record high, on Thursday the share market began a backward landslide. Global equity markets took another hit on Friday night on the back of the US sub-prime ...

Managed accounts move one step closer to benchmarking

Members of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (iMAP) have formed a working group that will help develop the standards for benchmarking managed accounts (MAs), in a bid to help financial advisers compare MAs in a uniform format. Ratings agency ...

Zurich advisers log on to IRESS software

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Zurich Financial Services has become the first Australian life office to launch IRESS' AppCentral electronic life insurance application software across its adviser network. The life-insurance program allows advisers to complete proposals and submit ...

Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris and former UBS banker Bryan Davies have joined forces to create new retail advice and wealth management company Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting ...

Super boomtimes as confidence goes stratospheric

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
The savings explosion ignited by Simpler Better Super has attracted so much money into super that it's never been healthier, while booming returns mean it's never been happier. It's having long term impacts too as analys released by AMP in association ...

Members need help comparing funds: Newspoll

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
Despite the plethora of super fund performance information now available, members do not know how to use it to properly to compare their funds, according to a Newspoll survey commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). ...

CFDs move from off-market to exchange

With the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) planning to open a contracts for difference (CFDs) exchange in two month's time, investment house ABN AMRO gets in first with the launch of its own branded listed CFDs. The group has today listed around ...

Plan B gets growing in New Zealand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
Recently listed Plan B Holdings has shifted its expansion plans into gear with the announcement of an alliance between its subsidiary Partnership Financial Services and New Zealand-based Polson Higgs Business Advisors. Polson Higgs will provide advice ...