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AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...

Syncsoft expands team after Superpartners deal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Tech company Syncsoft is expanding its team with nine new staff following last year's major contract win with Superpartners. Syncsoft recently finalised an agreement with Superpartners to replace eight software systems with CapitalX. Riding on the back ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... available to Australian investors, lost 3.3 per cent, outperforming the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index more than four fold when the index lost 14.4 per cent over a two-year period. "There was a lot of uncertainty during September and October ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... between the value of their house and the amount owed. It becomes the bank's problem. 'Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.' But the banks' problems have now turned around and also became everybody else's ...

Hyperion appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
Hyperion Asset Management has appointed Deborah Beale as chair and added another board member to the fold. Beale replaces Ian Macoun as chair who remains on the board as an executive director. Beale previously served on the board as an independent director ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... financial obligations. The same is true for the other two. All three warned that of a national economic catastrophe should they fold as the lost of millions of jobs reverberates through the entire system. But their display of extravagance - each flying ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... the unemployment rate increased from a low of 4.4 per cent in March 2007 to 6.5 per cent in October. More companies will fold. Those that survive will continue to cut costs. Both translate to more job losses. This would only stop once the economy finds ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... more hardship, not only for the US taxpayer but also for the rest of the world. A vicious cycle would ensue as companies fold because of the loss of liquidity and a slowing economy, investment drops and unemployment rises, consumer spending contracts ...

Lehman Bros files for bankruptcy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... Brothers International (Europe), Lehman Brothers Holdings, Lehman Brothers Limited and LB UK RE Holdings Limited are expected to fold into administration. "The directors of [these firms] have concluded that in the absence of ongoing financial support ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... However, while headlines are dominated by the losses and liquidity problems in these big institutions, smaller ones silently fold up but nonetheless, create a nasty ripple effect on the economy. Australia: The minutes of the RBA's Board meeting in September ...