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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Data released yesterday on lending finance up until July showed that housing finance increased 1.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from the level in June. The value of dwelling purchases for rent or re-sale fell by 10.5 per cent on a seasonally ...

Tricom makes IMAs admin-free for planners

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... integrated gearing facility and facilitate consolidated online reporting for both the adviser and client, "said Tricom associate director, Graham Parkes. Parkes also said that Tricom would provide requested market specific information, research and company ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 Group Insurance Review revealed that while scale may offer administrative ...

Macq talks up its quiet achiever in geared property

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... time on making sure we had the multi-manager strategy right and we had the income strategy right," said Leo Economides, associate director of Macquarie Real Estate. Christopher Andrews, Macquarie Real Estate division director, said the fund's success ...

Intelligently designed eLearning programs boost sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
ELearning was once considered just a cost-cutting tool driven by human resources departments wanting to lower training costs, but if it is intelligently redesigned it can become a method of finding and retaining customers and boost customer loyalty. ...

Plum puts increased super savings on auto-pilot

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... significant boost to their super savings, eventually ramping up to 15 per cent of their earnings. Professor Shlomo Benartzi, Associate Professor and co-chair of the Behavioural Decision-Making Group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said the ...

CFS adds to sales team

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
Colonial First State has added to its insurance products distribution team in New South Wales. Both Hannah Dickin and Michaela Bryan will join the group as Business Development Associates and report to NSW senior manager Chris Blaxland-Walker. Business ...

Macq centralises property management

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... a tailored and web-enabled property management tool which is aimed at further improving efficiencies. Ross O'Toole, associate director of Macquarie Real Estate and chief executive officer of MREMS, said the strategy was designed to improve service to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
The release of the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment yesterday heralded the arrival of forces opposing those like the strength in retail sales and the buoyancy in the housing market which have helped bring about last week's interest ...

HFA goes from strength to stronger profits

Absolute return fund manager HFA Holdings has announced a better than expected set of numbers in its first year as a public company, with shareholders enjoying healthy share price appreciation. HFA recorded a 113 per cent increase in funds under management ...