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Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Macquarie Life, said the product was successful in South Africa and is gaining momentum among lower-income earners in the country. Delaney said the Macquarie Life Active would only be distributed using financial planners, adding there was no strategy ...

LGS wins $2.1m green building fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... question is a 24-year-old building, which will be upgraded to become the most efficient commercial office building in the country using Australian technologies. "The upgrades will provide a cleaner, more comfortable environment for our tenants. This ...

AMP Asian strategy gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... than $700 million from Japanese retail investors last year and becoming one of the top 10 biggest fund managers in the country. Speaking at the AMP annual general meeting, Craig Dunn, chief executive at the firm, said it is concentrating on building ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... short answer is... pain. There'll be at least 13,000 more employees added to the unemployment stats. At last count, the country's unemployment rate was running at 20 per cent. More unemployed means less consumer spending to drive the economy. Less economic ...

MIT tax regime modernised and simplified

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
Fund managers around the country are breathing a big sigh of relief after the government adopts a more common sense approach to the way managed funds are taxed - a big plus for investors that have long been disadvantaged by archaic MIT tax rules. It's ...

Do nothing budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... return of Australia's fiscal position back into the black three years earlier than estimated. The Treasury expects the country's budget to produce a A$1 billion surplus in 2012/13 -- three years earlier than forecasts. Net debt is forecast to peak at ...

Investec eyes EM debt, record inflows

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010

ME Bank inks Telstra deal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... service branch outlet on the Gold Coast. To date, ME Bank employs more than 800 staff across more than 20 locations in the country. Under the deal, Telstra will provide the bank with fixed and mobile voice and data services that will run on the Telstra ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... unrest. Note the bloody (literally) protests and riots in Greece when the government implemented austerity measures in the country. While Europe's rescue plan may have short-circuited another freezing in the credit markets for now, the sovereign debt ...

Yellow Brick Road selects OneVue managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... be offering so-called universal managed accounts (UMA) to retail investors through its network of branches around the country. To date, the group has 27 branches in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast (and one in Singapore) ...