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Praemium to access UK's wealthiest through Lloyd's

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
Listed portfolio administration provider Praemium will provide services to the UK's wealthiest private investors through a new distribution deal signed with Argenta Private Capital. Praemium has appointed UK based Lloyd's adviser Argenta to distribute ...

Kiwisaver allows contributions to be diverted into mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
Kiwisaver, New Zealand's answer to Australia's SG based super system, is going where Australia superannuation policy makers fear to tread by allowing members to divert half their contributions into their mortgage. Under the contribution diversion plan ...

Pimco plans absolute return fixed interest fund

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
Pimco Australia has announced it is working on a new absolute return fixed interest fund, the Pimco Absolute Return Series (PARS), which will use leverage to let investors dial up their exposures. Speaking at the Portfolio Construction Conference on ...

Scale is king and it saves members money too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
Funds are no longer talking up mergers for their own sake, but it is already clear that well executed mergers or growth strategies can save members a significant amount of money. Alison McIvor, national manager marketing and communications at Australian ...

Max Super to go max Direct with investment funds

Incumbent financial services providers will face a new threat early next year when online super fund max Super launches its own branded investment funds, to be called max Direct. Co-founder and chief executive of max Super, Andrew Barlow, said the group ...

Malaysian EPF now unwired for SMS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
Australia runs a technologically more advanced super fund system than Malaysia, right? Wrong, and it's time we caught up with what our northern neighbours are doing. Members of Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and their employers can now obtain ...

A man is not a financial plan: MASU

A small financial services outfit, MASU group, is leading the charge in providing women with education on matters close to the heart and the hip pocket. The three-legged company - with a national network of financial planners, accountants and legal ...

St.George to re-hire lenders as contractors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
In move that would provoke uproar if applied to financial advisers, St.George Bank will offer to transition some of its non-branch mortgage sales force in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria to independent contractors restricted to selling only ...

FinLit Foundation goes back to school

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
The Financial Literacy Foundation's plan to introduce useful curriculum into schools is about to take its next step with a series of grassroots consultations with teachers around Australia. According to its just released Educators and Trainers August ...

SMAs step up to platforms

Australian Financial Services (AFS) Group is the latest to join a growing number of dealer groups who are pioneering the use of separately managed accounts (SMAs), touted the biggest thing since platforms. AFS joins Tolhurst Noall and Lonsdale Financial ...