Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1961 - 1970 of 2303 results for "Financial Planner"

Reverse mortgages jump 80 per cent to $1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Australia's emerging reverse mortgage market is growing at 80 per cent a year, the consulting actuary Deloitte Trowbridge reported yesterday. The country's 16 reverse mortgage lenders had $1.5 billion of loans on their books at December 31, up from ...

Advisers waiting for better SMAs: survey

Local separately managed accounts (SMA) providers have to offer more products and more features before SMAs could become mainstream, according to an Investment Trends survey. Research firm Investment Trends has finished the first part of a dual survey ...

Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The boutique Australian equity fund manager Contango Asset Management is branching out with the release yesterday of a prospectus for a listed investment company that has a mandate to invest purely in the financial services industry. The prospectus ...

Sunsuper launches free advice call centre

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
Sunsuper has introduced a new member advice centre to provide free over-the-phone financial advice to members. Following a successful trial, the centre's introduction completes a suite of Sunsuper financial advice services, including the member service ...

Web videocalls invigorate rural banking and remote advice

One of the country's largest credit unions, New England Credit Union (NECU), is making headway in regional banking and remotely offering financial advice through web-based videoconferencing. NECU's theme song could well go, "I've been to Armidale, Barraba ...

CGT overshadows Simpler Super benefits: Centric

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... and business real property from related parties. Finally, there was disappointment that tax deductibility of financial planner fees continued to be under question. "Under the new legislation, the tax deductibility of financial planner fees for advice ...

Fincorp failure burns 8,000 investors

... pensioner who lost $250,000 and another man placing $1.47 million in unsecured notes. Asked why she didn't go to a financial planner, she answered, "I did but I couldn't understand what he was talking about either." Ng wished the Australian Securities ...

CMC hires ex-AMP FP head

Contracts for difference (CFD) provider CMC Markets Asia Pacific has appointed a former head of AMP Financial Planning (AMP FP) to lead the group's distribution functions. CFD trading, a type of derivatives trading popular in the UK, was first launched ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
The Australian Government must appoint an over-arching body to guide innovators through the regulatory maze or risk missing out on genuine product development in financial services, one of the entrepreneurs behind the new shared equity market contends. ...

Insurance on the go

... called OneCare and is available through ANZ Financial Planners. "Customers apply for OneCare Express with an ANZ Financial Planner by answering a small number of simple health and lifestyle questions via the electronic application process. Approved customers ...