Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2951 - 2960 of 4416 results for "Ele"

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

StatewideSuper re-signs Bravura

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
South Australian based StatewideSuper has signed another three year contract with wealth management software provider Bravura Solutions to ensure further access to its ePASS superannuation technology. StatewideSuper's web portal is currently powered ...

SFG rolls out FOFA-ready MDA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
SFG Australia has rolled-out FOFA-ready managed portfolio and dynamic portfolio update services to its advice network. Colonial First State Custom Solutions is administering the new offerings via the Symetry Endeavour Portfolio Service. The rollouts ...

Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
Portfolio disclosure remains a contentious issue for superannuation funds, after it was first flagged in the 2010 Cooper review. It will be a major issue explored at the Financial Services Council annual conference, to be held on 1-3 August at the Gold ...

APRA warns trustees about data integrity

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has written to superannuation fund trustees to outline its expectations on data integrity requirements, warning that while there has been some improvement, funds still have a good way to go before the industry ...

Perpetual sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
Perpetual has reached an agreement to sell its mortgage processing business to FAF International Property Services Australia, an affiliate of First Mortgage Services. Plans to sell Perpetual Lenders Mortgage Services (PLMS) were announced as part of ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
"Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue." - Billy Joel, Honesty "There won't be a GST under the government I lead" promised Johnny Howard before being elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

GS, Citi appointed for NSW elec, coal mine sales

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Goldman Sachs will advise the NSW government on the $3bn sale of the State's electricity generators while Citigroup will act as specialist financial adviser on the sale or lease of the Cobbora coal mine development. "The sale of the State's electricity ...