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MLC stars in NAB $4.2bn profit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
NAB's acquisition of Aviva, double digit insurance premiums growth and improved investment markets have helped MLC and NAB Wealth become key contributors to the bank's $4.2 billion net profit this year. NAB announced this morning a 19.3 per cent increase ...

HOSTPLUS unveils new TV ads

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Industry fund HOSTPLUS has launched a new advertising campaign to attract more members to its fund. The campaign will include a series of three television commercials (TVCs), the first of which went to air this week. The ads will focus on an emotional ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Freeze frame. Wall Street has frozen with excitement. Disappointing US third quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The average Australian believes financial advice should cost just $300 upfront - almost 10 times less what planners say is the break-even cost of providing full advice, and a figure planners are calling "completely unrealistic". New research from Investment ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The fight over commissions on investment products and superannuation is over. Advisers must stop debating over them and switch their focus to influencing their future. Opening the 2010 AFA annual conference in front of a packed auditorium with almost ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading over the weekend, with equities markets in the US, Asia and Europe mixed, oil and base metals higher, but precious metals eased. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0627 AEDT, the December ...

AMP, AXA and CFS planners choose own super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
AMP, AXA and Colonial First State planners channel the most sales into their parent firms' superannuation products out of six major planning groups, new research shows. According to new figures from Roy Morgan, which researched nearly 5,700 super products ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0630 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 32 points higher at 4,664 points. In economics news on Thursday ...

Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Trust is fundamental to the advice relationship - but planners need to ask themselves why they rank so low on the ethics and honesty scale among Australians who don't seek advice, said the AFA. Jim Taggart, national president of the Association of Financial ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...