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MLC launches high income protection

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... earn more relative to their overseas counterparts, the country's metropolitan cities also rank among the most expensive places to live in and have witnessed soaring property prices despite the GFC, driving consumer demand for better income cover in recent ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... reform of the global financial sector... the overriding goal was to prevent 'regulatory arbitrage'-the migration of banks to places where the burden of tax and regulation is lightest." Seek and thou shalt find. There's Greece... and Ireland, and Portugal ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... prohibited from receiving fees based on whether they succeed in convincing the funds to commit money. On top of that, the bill places strict limits on placement agents - the financial middlemen hired by some money managers to seek investments from public ...

Brand the top concern for finance industry

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... risk concerns that affect business growth, such as lack of innovation and business interruption, both of which rose four places this year. Also supporting a focus away from the GFC was the drop in importance of capital availability and structure. The ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... tackle skill shortages in the state. This ranged from providing accommodation allowances to providing additional training places, to investing in a job matching service. How can the same number 5.2 per cent give two completely opposing meanings? It was ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... 12 months to December last year, beating the MSCI World ex-Australia (Net Dividend) by nearly 20 per cent. This result places in on Rainmaker's top 10 best performing global equities actively managed funds over that time period. This 12-month performance ...

Life insurance consolidation could hurt consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... 21.2 per cent, with Tower ranking fourth at 14.1 per cent, and AIA, BT/Westpac and National Australia/MLC taking their places in the top three. On group risk inflows, Tower ranked fourth behind AIA Australia, CommInsure and ING Australia to report $252 ...

BT adds 33 new funds to Wrap Essentials

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... managers, and multi-manager funds. There is now also a new, simple start application process - a one touch process that places initial trades, sets up regular gearing and Regular Investment Plans in a one step. There is also a simpler insurance application ...

FPA calls for whistleblowers and more planner education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... driven by the reticence of financial planners to publicly raise the alarm on possibly scrupulous practices. "When we went to places like Townsville and spoke to financial planning clients of Storm, we found people were reluctant to 'dob in' planners ...

ING outsources research to two firms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... governance that better aligns our research structure to the needs of the dealer groups with a fully transparent approach, and places the function of selecting the APL with the dealer groups, where the law places the obligation," said Smith in the sta ...