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Advice numbers and client claims hit PIS results

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The fall in advice numbers and the increase in client claims hit Professional Investment Services (PIS) revenue, which fell 7% during the first half of financial year 2014. Centrepoint Alliance-owned PIS reported that net revenues fell by 7% to $11.497 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after the S&P 500 hit a new record peak with investors were generally optimistic about growth in the US economy. At 0810 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was up 21 points at ...

Death and TPD dominate Super Complaints Tribunal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
More than half of all complaints made to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in the December quarter related to death and disability insurance claims. Death benefit disputes made up 32.2% of complaints, while disability related disputes, including ...

YBR doubles wealth management revenue

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has more than doubled its wealth management revenue in the six months to December 30, 2013. The company reported a 129% increase to $1.64 million in the first half of financial year 2014. However, the lending retail side of the ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
UCA Fund Management will cease to invest directly in companies involved the extraction, refinement and exportation of thermal coal and unconventional oil and gas. The ethical fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
"As this prudent economy, which some people call Saving, is in private families the most certain method to increase an estate, so some imagine that, whether a country be barren or fruitful, the same method if generally pursued (which they think practicable) ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rallied as investors responded to encouraging results from several retailers and analysed comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the March share price ...

TRU acquisition boosts Perpetual growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Perpetual underlying profit after tax (UPAT) grew 37% on the first half of financial year 2014, compared to the previous period, reflecting the acquisition of The Trust Company. Perpetual UPAT reached $48.1 million, while its statutory net profit after ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Whoopsie! No more free Chinese take-aways. Yeah, yeah, I know... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following a flat performance on Wall Street with investors mostly tentative ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony in Congress. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures ...