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Govt lifts financial hardship threshold

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... variation to a loan where a customer cannot pay due to illness, unemployment or other reasonable causes. The government plans to lift the threshold to $500,000 from $312,000 at present. Most lenders already negotiate payments plans with borrowers in ...

FPA endorses iShares CPD program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Closer Look at Liquidity of ETFs. Participants earn CPD points at the end of the module by completing a short quiz. The firm plans on developing more modules on ETFs in the coming months, an iShares statement said. Tim Bradbury, co-head of iShares Australia ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... result of the a deepening recession and ongoing GFC, nearly half of the outflows occurred in the fourth quarter forcing many plans to raise funds to meet their benefit payments; tapping the most liquid investments within their structures. The research ...

Timbercorp calls in administrators

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... capital-intensive business model and will restructure to cut overheads. But a company statement released today stated that the company's plans, including the asset sale "could not be executed in the timeframe to meet the company's debt obligations." ...

AMP moves into direct super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... of age. "They want value for money and access to the features and advice for them when they need it," he said. The firm plans to initially distribute the product, which is available from May 25, using the firm's financial planning and call centre networks. ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Darling's future is next year. US President Barack Obama's future is also definite. Earlier this year, he announced this plans to cut the US budget deficit in half by the end of his first term - mainly by raising taxes for Americans earning US$250,000 ...

Financial Synergy to upgrade admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... front-end technology internally to ensure it can cope with the varying transactions and reporting required. He said the firm plans to launch the alternative front end of Acurity by July 2010 at the latest.

UBS cuts business and jobs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... of cost savings by the end of next year. This means the bank expects to cut over 8,000 employees to 67,500 by 2010. UBS plans to maintain its core business across international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its divisions ...

US employees flee pension plans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Up to 60 per cent of US companies are seeing their employees postpone retirement plans and reduce pension plan participation. Dissaffected employees are also increasing hardship withdrawals, according to a new Towers Perrin survey. US employees are ...

The Indians are coming

WITH THESHEET.COM.AU  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... institutions looking to expand into the Indian sub-continent are being outflanked by a rush of Indian institutions announcing rapid plans to open offices Down Under. According to The Sheet banking industry newsletter, two of India's state-owned banks ...