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One down, more to follow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... Residential construction is down by 27.5 per cent in the year to July and has now fallen by 46.4 per cent from its peak in March 2006. Elsewhere, signs that the problem in the UK housing market is getting worse were underscored by the government's recent ...

Super SA gives thumbs up to SyncSoft

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... under way to implementing a bigger and better payroll processing system. Super SA first signed on SyncSoft's Capital in March to provide the payroll system that will handle the South Australian government's 15,000 lifetime pension accounts. To date ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... over the past few months, investors' nerves have been slowly steadying. After rebounding from a low of 1276.6 points in March to a high of 1426.6 points in May, the S&P 500 Index has again collapsed, falling to two and a half year lows. Correspondingly ...

Ex-Allianz Global retail head joins S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... distribution and head of retail for Allianz Global Investors. Milton's appointment follows other recent appointments. In March, the group appointed ex-IOOF Paul O'Connor as director and two months before that, recruited Miles Collins and Kelly Napier ...

S&P place Advance Asian fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... fundamentals." Advance Asset Management's Asian Equity fund was set up in 2004 and received a Standard & Poor's four star rating in March 2006.

ASX listing breaches hit 13pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... listed companies breaking listing rules during the 12 months ended 30 September last year, according to a Regnan report in March. The same report also found more than a third of the listed 200 companies failed to comply with the Corporations Act - notifying ...

Telstra's McCredden joins UniSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law. McCredden's appointment follows a selection process that commenced in March 2008 with the departure OF former UniSuper chief executive, Ann Byrne. In the intervening period, David St. John, chief ...

ING A rejects munitions claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... spokesperson at ING Australia, the firm enforced a strict investment procedure regarding munitions in its funds and portfolios. "In March 2005 ING revised its defence investing policy. This revised policy states that munitions companies are excluded ...

FPA launches PI insurance for members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... significant change in the market as a result." The FPA began calling for submissions to provide PI insurance for its members in March this year. Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said the FPA was prompted to act after the Australian Securities and ...

BT Wrap to offer short form insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... including income and trauma insurance, on its super and investment wrap platform. BT Financial Group improved the service in March, including the ability to generate a personal statement online and a "quote engine" was created allowing planners to track ...