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FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is on a hiring spree, increasing staff numbers by around 25 per cent in around nine months to cope with record levels of complaints across the financial services market. Colin Neave, chief ombudsman at FOS, said ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Happy consumers beget a happy Wall Street. Green sprouts starting to flower? Neither Kim Jung Il's rattling of his nuclear sabre nor a reminder that US house prices continue to fall were able to prevent Wall Street from turning in a strong finish last ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...

Tweeting won't get you jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
More than 80 per cent of Australian jobseekers, including those in financial services, dismiss social networking as a way to find out about new jobs. A new Hays survey of around 800 Australian job hunters show that almost one in two said social networking ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... membership base, only 2 per cent of the assets have gone to cash," said Humphrys. The 2 per cent switch mirrors a similar figure from the previous year, where switching rates hovered at 1.9 per cent. The 2 per cent figure is also in stark contrast to ...

Maritime merger saves $1m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Maritime Super may be able to save more than $1 million in administrative costs as a result of the merger in March, according to initial estimates. Peter Robertson, chief executive at Maritime Super, said the merger between the Stevedoring Employees ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

Pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... households received a notice of foreclosure during the month. Sounds bad when put this way. But work out the percentage figure and it becomes a piddling 0.3 per cent of households. The bottomline is that unless another unexpected economic or financial ...

Pension deficits worsen for FTSE 100

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
The total deficit of FTSE 100 pension schemes in March has widened to $100 billion, a new research found. The total deficit of FTSE 100 pension schemes in March ballooned to $100 billion - a deterioration of $171 billon from 12 months ago, according ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Managed accounts specialists Dalton Nicol Reid has picked up three dealer group mandates in the last month, including one from AMP. Jamie Nicol, chief investment officer of DNR, said that there's no doubt that the managed accounts market is booming ...