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Centric rolls out mat for expats

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... with taxation assistance, housing assistance, mail re-direction and schooling for family members on setting up in a new country. "However tailored advice on wealth creation, superannuation and managing investments while overseas is rarely provided in ...

Adelaide Bank goes mobile with Microsoft

... business development managers. The South Australian bank is making an aggressive push to provide banking services around the country. It has grown its asset base from just over $2 billion in 1994 to more than $26 billion today. Based in Adelaide, the ...

Innovation index ranks finance and insurance second

The inaugural findings of the country's innovation index reveal the finance and insurance sector as the second most innovative industry behind to the wholesale trade sector. The index was the outcome of a joint study by IBM Australia and the Melbourne ...

Public equity under pressure

... knows everything, is actually not consistent with being competitive and different," said Murray. Given that some of the country's largest listed companies have been the subject of takeovers or speculation in recent months, the rest of the market is feeling ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... 17,400.41. HONG KONG - Blue chips struck four-week lows before ending down 1.01 per cent after China moved to rein in the country's credit growth, triggering a sell-off that hit mainland lenders and property shares hard. The benchmark Hang Seng Index ...

ING set to ride structured credit wave

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
... outlook remains favourable, with developing markets set to underpin a continued global expansion," he said. He also said country's central banks' switching focus from employment to inflation has reduced risk premiums and created a more stable investment ...

Finsia sells education to focus on member services

One of the country's longest running financial institutes, the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) has signalled a change in business direction after it agreed to sell its education arm to Kaplan Inc enabling it to concentrate on providing ...

MFS snaps up ex-BT hedge funds guru

... solutions with BT Financial Group where he set up and managed the BT Global Return fund, one of the largest hedge funds in the country with nearly $1.5 billion in assets. Prior to BT, he was the Asia-Pacific head of private research and funds management ...

Reverse mortgages jump 80 per cent to $1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... reverse mortgage market is growing at 80 per cent a year, the consulting actuary Deloitte Trowbridge reported yesterday. The country's 16 reverse mortgage lenders had $1.5 billion of loans on their books at December 31, up from $1.1 billion at June 30 ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... surpluses - a result of market distortions - has been an ongoing issue in China for decades. While being the 128th poorest country in the world, China is currently the world's third largest capital exporting country, and also the third largest FDI recipient. ...