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Tyndall managing director steps aside

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
Tyndall will begin looking for a new managing director next week after Barry Sheehan announced he was stepping aside to take on a new role at Tyndall after after less than 12 months in the top job. Sheehan, formerly of HSBC Asset Management, said he ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
... a volume of 5864 contracts. The major news of the day has been Telstra's one-year update on its five-year transformation plan, which CEO Sol Trujillo says is running ahead of schedule. At the briefing to media and analysts the company also launched a ...

You are how you spend, not your age

Age is not the defining factor for how consumers spend on financial services, according to a leading demographics expert who argued that labels such as Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomers were outmoded and ineffective. Ex-KPMG consumer behaviourist, Ross ...

PIS expands footprint into Canada

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2006
... using GFC as a stepping stone into the US market. The Canadian acquisition is another step in the international expansion plan. PIS already operates more than 50 New Zealand outlets and has more than 200 representatives in Singapore with operations in ...

PIS launches new income fund

Professional Investment Services (PIS) has launched the Discovery Investment Services Core Income Fund, investing primarily in two Australian Unity Investments (AUI) mortgage funds. "The AUI mortgage products have a proven record of providing attractive ...

We need to show people how to plan: AXA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
While too few Australians have a financial plan, many are unsure what a financial plan actually is and how to go about developing one. The AXA Financial Planning Insights Survey for October has found that one-quarter of people responding to the survey ...

Magnitude opens up to private wealth

Magnitude Group has announced the opening of its Magnitude Private Wealth practice in Melbourne, set to be the first of many that will serve high net worth investors. The new practice starts with around $250 million in funds under administration (FUA) ...

Enhanced platform share trade services for netwealth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
Netwealth has introduced a range of enhancements to its website to enable multiple share transactions to be processed in one single client transaction. Rather than requiring multiple transactions to be executed for each share trade, up to 10 separate ...

Clearing houses need to be licensed: ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that it considers clearing houses to be financial products and operators will therefore need to be licensed. In announcing its position, ASIC has drawn a distinction between clearing ...

IFM in A$5.5bn bid for fourth-largest English and Welsh water supplier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has announce that a consortium it is involved with is bidding to takeover AWG in the UK, the fourth-largest water supplier and sewage company in England and Wales. Other consortium partners also include Osprey Acquisitions ...