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Women dropping out of financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
The Australian financial services industry is losing the war for talent and may not be able to maintain its growth if it is not able to turn the situation around. Its biggest failing has been its inability to attract women with tertiary qualifications ...

CBA targets self managed super

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
Commonwealth Bank on Tuesday launched the first offerings from its new structured investments team, aimed squarely at trustees of self managed superannuation funds. Like a number of other financial institutions, CBA is hoping to take advantage of changes ...

AFA launches 2008 Adviser of the Year

... 1 August and the winner will be announced at the AFA National Conference on 21 October. Nominations can be made online on www.afa.asn.com.au. AFA chief executive Richard Klipin said nominated advisers, who must be members of the AFA, will be judged on ...

Industry funds steering clear of FHSAs

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
The release this week of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority draft prudential standards for super funds that plan to offer first home saver accounts has confirmed the view of many fund trustees that the FHSA structure and regulatory framework ...

CMC launches online trading platform

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... service marks the first venture CMC Markets and Andrew West Stockbroking set as part of their combined roadmap. The website, www.cmcmarketsstockbroking.com.au, covers a broad range of shares, options, warrants, listed management investments, managed ...

Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Syndicated lending by Australian banks fell by around half during the March 2008 quarter, in one measure of the restricted availability of corporate credit since the global credit crunch emerged in mid 2007. The Bank for International Settlements estimated ...

CBA still seeding Colonial funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Seed funding for a couple of landmark infrastructure investments by Colonial remains on the balance sheet of Commonwealth Bank, in one case more than 15 months after the bank tipped in the capital. In an investor briefing on the bank's wealth management ...

CommSec extends its reach

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Commonwealth Bank executive general manager for private client services, Edward Tait, describes the bank's online brokerage CommSec as a financial services supermarket. At an analysts' briefing yesterday Tait outlined plans to stock the supermarket ...

Investec earnings modest, eyes Aus

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008

Banks enjoy mortgage windfall, sort of

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
The reverse mortgage market is in the doldrums following the withdrawal from the market by one lender and sharp cutbacks by a couple of others. But brokers report that while there is still demand from people who need access to funds even though applications ...