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MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
MLC has appointed a new senior asset consultant to bolster the implemented consulting team. David Klug joins MLC from his most recent posting with Metropolitan Life in South Africa where he headed up the corporate consulting team. Klug has also spent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
The ANZ job advertisement series has shown that the total number of jobs in major metropolitan newspapers as well as the internet has risen by 0.3 per cent in September following the fall of 1.3 per cent in August of this year. The present level is ...

SAITeysMcMahon on the acquisition trail

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
... acquiring $623 million in commercial retail properties from Woolworths supplemented by the $120 million purchase of a Sydney metro office property. The Woolworths portfolio was part purchased however by the Lend Lease managed Australian Prime Property ...

Amicus builds business on flat planning fee

Amicus Financial Planning has created a template for a flat fee-for-service model that is gaining fans among planners keen to sidestep the current debacle on conflicts of interest surrounding commission-based fees. Amicus is run by financial planner ...

Asgard makes regional appointments

Asgard Wealth Solutions has made three new appointments as part of its recent move to restructure its distribution network along regional lines. The group has appointed Neil Younger to the newly created position of head of business and strategic development ...

FPA readies for another dose of Dazza

After the success of their initial "Dazza" value of advice advertising campaign, the FPA is revving up for round two. According to the FPA, 34 per cent of investors who participated in a study had seen the initial "Dazza" campaign about the value of ...

OptiMix goes Indian with multi-manager solution

OptiMix, the multi-manager division of ING Investment Management, is about to launch the OptiMix Income Growth Multi-Manager FoF Scheme into the Indian market. OptiMix's first mutual fund scheme offered in the Indian market implements an investment ...

Perpetual appoints former ANZ MD to board

Perpetual Limited (Perpetual) has appointed a former ANZ Group (ANZ) managing director to their board to replace three directors who announced their retirement at the company's AGM in October last year. Elizabeth Proust, former managing director of ...

City slickers to face higher bankruptcy rates: ITSA

The latest statistics from Insolvency and Trustee Services Australia (ITSA) paint a dire picture of the incidence of bankruptcies in the eastern states, brought on by rising petrol and household living costs. According to ITSA, bankcruptcies in the ...

FPA "Good Advice" campaign starts on TV this week

The first TV advertisements in the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) Value of Advice campaign will start screening this week on morning television. Channel 7's Sunrise program is the first place where the ads will be seen, but subsequently over ...