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Budget underwhelms planning groups

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... night included a tax discount to 50 per cent on up to $1,000 of interest earned on deposits held in any bank, building society or credit union from July 2011. The tax discount also applies to bonds, debentures and annuity products. For a person earning ...

Not-for-profits still beat retail: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... funds in the APRA tables are dominated by the not-for-profit sector with the top retail fund, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, coming in only 33rd place. The second best retail fund, Challenger, came 36th and the third best, Australian Ethical ...

Cash for Christmas

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... iceberg of lost monies in Australia. "Another $500 million can also be found in dormant bank, credit union and building society accounts. Many Australians have also failed to cash in old life insurance policies or indeed claim their money when a compulsory ...

MAP partners with Heritage Building Society

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
MAP Funds Management has formed a strategic partnership with Heritage Building Society that will see MAP provide Heritage with superannuation investment products and financial planning services. According to a statement on the fund's website, the deal ...

Banks to tap ATMs for advertising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... retail banks - adding extra revenue from third party advertisers. Current customers of atmAd include Nationwide Building Society, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Alliance & Leicester. The firm also calls Barclays, Lloyds TSB, TBS and HSBC among its ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... societies can offer sharebroking services through CMC instead of a bank, which means the funds can stay within the building society and not into a competing financial institution's account. Odes said that they are due to appoint a new Head of Partners ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... September quarter will be released today. In equities news, BHP Billiton will release first quarter results. Heritage Building Society, retailer Country Road Ltd, Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Asciano Group will hold annual general meetings. AWB ...

ME to gain market share

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... Bank head of corporate and social responsibility, said it was not considering purchasing any credit union or building society. "We feel that on a couple of different fronts we're extremely well positioned and we're setting up for strong growth. We think ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... This was to be expected as economic activity in the UK slows and house prices continue to tumble. The Nationwide Building Society reported that UK house prices fell by another 1.7 per cent in September, after a similar 1.7 per cent drop in August. Elsewhere ...

Westpac and St.George outline merger terms

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... Exchange, St.George shareholders will own just over 28 per cent of the combined entity, while three of the ex-building society's directors including chairman John Curtis will be appointed onto the Westpac Board. Curstis is expected to become the deputy ...