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Mercer's self employed advice strategy falls short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Mercer Wealth Solutions' strategy to sign self-employed financial planning practices has netted only two practices in a year, well short of the expected 12 practices flagged last year. Mercer Wealth Solutions launched its self-employed financial planning ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Don't know about you but to me, this week is one of the most boring one for equity markets. Wall Street rebounded overnight. Big deal! The numerous companies that have reported second quarter earnings much - some even much, much - better than consensus ...

PI insurers face $300m in claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
Advisers could face tougher hurdles to get professional indemnity cover as insurers expect a $300 million claims bill in the next three years resulting from collapses such as Storm Financial, said an industry expert. Christina Kalantzis, principal of ...

Gen-Y in a bottle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Banks and super funds run the risk of losing their Gen-Y members, who will represent half of their membership base in 10 years' time, if they don't drastically change their communication channels today. Rocky Scopelliti, a senior executive at Telstra ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Phew! That was a close call. Just when you thought Wall Street has run out of puff, a tail wind comes to lift its sails. The Dow and the S&P 500 spent most of last night's trading activity in the red. For most of the session, investors were cashing ...

Bluedoor Technology on hiring spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
DST Global Solutions has been overwhelmed with the response from super funds after the firm bought administration technology provider Bluedoor Technologies and is hiring a number of financial services experts to develop the business. Ian Mathieson ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
"The government is not contemplating another round of cash payments," Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) early this week. This could be interpreted as either the Australian Government does not want to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open weaker after US stocks fell and oil prices dropped overnight. Higher gold, silver and copper prices could help lift the market, however. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Financial planning is key: Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Westpac chief executive and managing director, Gail Kelly, said in a briefing yesterday that the bank's financial planning business is central to Westpac's multi-brand strategy. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch briefing, Kelly said ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Financial services data in the clouds? You betcha. At least that's what Microsoft is going to do from early next year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial ...