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ASX200 option for legalsuper

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Legal sector super fund legalsuper has launched a new ASX200 investment option, giving members the opportunity to invest up to 50 per cent of their super in top 200 listed companies. legalsuper joins a small but growing list of industry funds flicking ...

Opes Prime launches First IT platform

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Opes Prime has launched what it claims is an industry first IT platform, appropriately called Opes Prime First, to provide a total online service for its securities lending and equity financing clients. The multi-market, multi-currency system, developed ...

Court stops pair posing as bank

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has obtained court orders to prevent the unauthorised financial business 'The Federal State Bank of Australia' from calling itself or acting like a bank. The supposed "bank" was held up as an institution ...

LDI spurs growth of bond derivatives

The demand for inflation-linked bonds and their derivatives is set to rise in tandem with the growing popularity of liability driven investing (LDI) in Australia and overseas, according to experts. As the name suggests, LDI is a form of investment strategy ...

Quadrant leads super funds investors to buy Red Rooster

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Quadrant Private Equity has led its super fund investors to buy Australian Fast Foods (AFF), owner of the Red Rooster and Chicken Treat brands, for $180 million. The management buy-out, funded largely by domestic super funds, seeks to improve both Quadrant's ...

Web videocalls invigorate rural banking and remote advice

One of the country's largest credit unions, New England Credit Union (NECU), is making headway in regional banking and remotely offering financial advice through web-based videoconferencing. NECU's theme song could well go, "I've been to Armidale, Barraba ...

CGT overshadows Simpler Super benefits: Centric

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
Anne-Marie Esler of Centric Wealth argues that while the new simpler super rules are a significant step forward, issues relating to capital gains tax (CGT) have been overlooked. Esler outlined what she considered the five main issues regarding super ...

LIXI makes lending technologies more affordable

The Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI), a non-profit organisation representing mortgage brokers and lenders, has changed its membership model to allow more industry players to adopt better and cheaper e-commerce technologies. LIXI was established ...

Challenger outsources data IT to InvestmentLink

Challenger Financial Services joins Perpetual, ING and Netwealth in choosing InvestmentLink's e-Portfolio data service to manage client information. This means advisers who use Challenger products get daily updates of client account activity using Investment ...

ING opens up alternatives

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
ING's has launched a new capital protected fund through its OneAnswer platform that gives investors access to alternative investments with the comfort of built-in safeguards. Developed exclusively for ING by SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale Asset Management ...