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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 ...

Combet joins ME board

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
ACTU secretary and director of AustralianSuper, Greg Combet, has joined the board of Members Equity Bank as a director. Members Equity Bank chief executive officer Anthony Wamsteker said, "Greg is an outstanding leader who has effectively represented ...

REST steps on board Members Equity

REST Superannuation has paired up with Members Equity Bank (ME) to offer low cost banking and discounted home loans to all REST and Acumen members, starting this month. "This arrangement will see ME bring our members a range of simple, low cost banking ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute's Leading Index rose by 1.8 points in June resulting in a year on year growth rate of 5.3 per cent, the highest monthly reading since March 2004. The index measures four components of future activity in the approvals ...

St.George buys HSBC's margin lending

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
St.George Bank yesterday acquired the margin lending business of HSBC Bank Australia. HSBC margin loan clients will become St.George customers effective immediately and the total transition is expected to be completed by mid-September. The HSBC margin ...

Flatmates to mortgage-mates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
Shifting demographics and affordability are forcing young people to re-think their strategy for breaking into the housing market. According to a report published in this month's YourMortgage magazine, in recent years the once clear-cut picture of home ...

Grange number one for credit linked notes: AsiaRisk magazine

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
Grange Securities has topped an Asia-wide poll as the best Australian financial institution in credit linked notes, which includes CDOs. In the wider category of derivatives and structured credit products, the survey also ranked Grange in the top five ...

Careless spending wastes $25bn

A new survey has found that Australians spend an average $25 billion per year on daily luxuries such as takeaway food and trashy magazines, with the unusual discovery that men are actually the bigger 'careless spenders' than women. Virgin Money has ...

Our master is the government: FF boss

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
The Future Fund is the government's money and it is the boss, said Future Fund chairman David Murray in an interview yesterday. Speaking on ABC TV, Murray said this also means the Government can dictate what shares are placed into the Fund, even though ...

MBF lifestyle protector to bundle insurance and ClearView

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
MBF is spending $25 million on marketing how it bundles ClearView and its insurance products under a "lifestyle protector" umbrella. The point of the strategy is to broaden the health insurer's image from just health insurance to wealth management and ...