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Asgard welcomes head of corporate super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
Asgard Wealth Solutions has appointed a new head of corporate super to help drive growth in the division. Darren Whereat leaves MLC to take up his new appointment as head of business superannuation with Asgard saying it intends to aggressively target ...

Industry reports more soaring profits

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
The wealth management industry continues to scale new heights with more strong reporting results for some of the big brands for the half year to 31 December 2006. This is due largely to an increase in superannuation inflows and solid returns in the ...

BT partners to cut platform costs

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
BT has launched BT Wrap Advantage, a new initiative which will deliver improved services and efficiencies to advisers and participating fund managers and lowers platform costs for the 75,000 users of the $31 billion platform. BT has worked with 15 participating ...

Matrix finds its $1b Oasis

Independent financial planning group Matrix Planning Solutions predicts it will grow its funds under management (FUM) by 20 per cent each year under the Oasis platform, having already passed the $1 billion mark this year. "We are pleased to have reached ...

Meet the $9b intangible fund

In a short visit to Sydney, a London based fund manager from Morgan Stanley explained why investors have poured nearly $9 billion (US$7 billion) into a portfolio that values companies based on their 'invisible' assets. In Australia the fund has attracted ...

ANZ bids 20 times earnings for E*TRADE

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
ANZ has put its faith in the continuation of the bull market, bidding more than 20 times earnings for the online share broker E*TRADE. ANZ has been a business partner of E*Trade since 1999 and holds 34 per cent of the company's stock. The bank is offering ...

FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has released a checklist for its members working with clients on switching their superannuation. The checklist focuses on information gathering and comes in response to concern over legislative requirements for ...

Property 'extreme makeover' a winning formula: FKP

FKP Funds Management, the funds management arm of FKP property group, delivered more than its full year return target in the space of six months by buying into and refurbishing distressed properties. The group's FKP Core Plus fund returned 18.8 per ...

Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

With the S&P/ASX300 Index zooming past 6,000 points last week, investors in index funds can look back at another year of exceptional passive returns. According to Rainmaker Data, the top 10 index funds last year achieved an average return of 24 per ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... dam instead. Most recently Mr Debnam has said that he will top up the drinking water with recycled water via a $956 million plan to link water treatment plants in north-west Sydney with the Prospect Dam. When dam levels fall below twenty per cent the ...