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Decimal offers $5 financial health check

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
Financial planners can update their clients on the performance of their portfolios in an easy to read format just in time for Christmas after Decimal launched a $5 special 'financial health check' offer until the end of December. The special offer allows ...

Macq reduces headcount

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Macquarie Bank is the latest investment and banking firm to reduce headcount in the wake of the financial crisis with job cuts in its Melbourne and Sydney offices today. It is believed that more than 100 roles in Macquarie Capital were made redundant. ...

Adelaide Bank opens Guaranteed Term Deposit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Adelaide Bank has launched the Guaranteed Term Deposit, which provides investors with access to the Federal Government's cash deposit guarantee for amounts above $1 million. Bruce Speirs, Adelaide Bank general manager of managed funds, said the bank ...

PASL names trustee director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Trustee company PASL has appointed former Accountants Super national sales manager, Ian Chisholm as trustee director for a six year term. PASL is the trustee firm which manages PASF super funds; Australian Enterprise Super, RecruitmentSuper and Accountants ...

Fidelity Europe fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Standard & Poor's has revised its rating of the Fidelity Europe fund from 'four stars' to 'on hold' after key portfolio manager Trygve Toraasen left the firm. As a result of Toraasen's departure, European Small Companies fund portfolio manager, Fabio ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting hired hedge fund researcher, Ching Lee as an analyst. Lee previously worked at Shadforth Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing ...

BT upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
BT Financial Group has improved the features of its Westpac Protection Plans and BT Life Protection Plans to provide wider coverage across illnesses. The firm has revised its definition cancer conditions to include Colorectal cancer and Chronic Lymphomatic ...

Instreet funds gain second platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Instreet's Reliance Commodities and Reliance Global Allocation fund have been added to the BT Wrap platform. Both funds are already available on the Macquarie Wrap platform. The Instreet Reliance Commodities fund received a 'recommended' rating and ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
Only half the investment decisions equity fund managers make add value, Inalytics research found. According to research across 215 long only equity portfolios, a 'good' fund manager generates a 51 per cent 'hit-rate', which is one per cent better than ...

Life insurance too complicated: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
The life insurance industry is missing a significant segment of the Australian market after a new survey found two in five people think insurance is far too complicated and hard to understand. ING Australia's life insurance research 'She'll be right ...