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Fin services shines in Telstra Awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Financial Management Solutions, Aspire Retire Financial Services and Addwealth were named state winners in the annual Telstra Business Awards. New South Wales-based Financial Management Solutions and West Australian-based Addwealth won the Sensis Social ...

CFD demand rises with equities recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are staging a comeback and, in the last 12 months, there was a power shift among the largest players too, new research found. Research firm Investment Trends released its latest annual report on the sector, canvassing ...

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Super funds run the risk of giving their fund members damaging financial advice if they don't address the "hidden traps" that come with the new intra-fund advice rules, warns a planning expert. Last month the federal government endorsed ASIC's decision ...

Decimal targets super intra-fund advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Financial planning software provider, Decimal has teamed up with two super funds to allow the funds to provide intra-fund advice cheaper and more effectively. Jan Kolbusz, managing director at Decimal, said the firm is working with super funds to allow ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The $685 million meat industry super fund AMIST has added $28 million to four existing Australian and international equity fund mandates. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST, said the fund topped-up a number of existing mandates to increase the fund's ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Super funds have the power to restore public confidence in superannuation, which quickly eroded after the GFC, by investing more on their brands, said the marketing firm behind the successful 'Kevin 07'campaign. Marketing firm, Lawrence Creative Strategy ...

Macquarie launches online election service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Macquarie Wrap has launched an online election service for corporate actions - a process that helps advisers eliminate the need for paperwork. When creating the new online service, Macquarie Wrap focused on reducing the administrative burden for advisers ...

Sunsuper extends planning service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Sunsuper has upgraded the fund's financial planning capability with On Track, a program which provides tailored on-going financial advice for members for free if the member has all their super in the fund. The super fund is targeting members 40 years ...

OptiMix appoints new managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
CrA(C)dit Agricole Asset Management, Investec Asset Management and MFS Investment Management are just three of the multiple new fund managers added to OptiMix's new investment manager line-up. CrA(C)dit Agricole, MFS, Investec, AllianceBernstein and ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Cuscal and Payment Adviser have partnered to provide 2 million small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a superannuation transaction service that will cut costs and make it easier to make employee payments. The superannuation clearing house will ...