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Count buys $6m stake in Mortgage Choice

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Financial advice firm Count Financial has palmed a $6 million slice of Mortgage Choice as it ups its stake in the mortgage advice space. Count acquired a 4.9 per cent interest in the mortgage broker under the advice of Lehman Brothers, noted a statement ...

Finsia launches Career Portal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) takes another step towards addressing the country's talent drought when it launched a new service dedicated to those considering a career in financial services. Finsia has launched Career Portal ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market was trading higher at midday led by improved sentiment toward the financial sector after Wall Street closed up more than one per cent overnight. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 77.4 points, or 1.55 per ...

AFA searches for Rising Star

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
The race to become this year's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Rising Star award winner is on again, but planners must go above and beyond the normal day to day activity to win, according to last year's award winner, Chris Browne. The annual ...

CBA swoops on ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Commonwealth Bank is in talks to buy ABN AMRO Australia Holdings after National Australia Bank (NAB) withdrew its bid to buy the firm. More than two weeks ago, NAB announced it was in was in talks with the Royal Bank of Scotland to purchase ABN AMRO ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight (16 July) Fed Gloom US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the US Congress last night catapulted the Australian dollar to a 25-year high in overnight trading. The Australian dollar broke above the US$0.9800 ...

MLC adopts paraplanning referral service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Financial services firm MLC is dropping its paraplanning strategy with ThreeSixty and moving its financial planning service to a referral model. MLC set up ThreeSixty in 1999 and has been using the business for all its paraplanning requirements. This ...

BOQ writes off franchise loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Most of the loans from Bank of Queensland to owner-operators of its franchised branches in Sydney appear to be impaired, and the bank appears to be increasingly willing to write off some of those loans. Of 55 owner-managed branches in New South Wales ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

NAB in talks to buy ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
National Australia Bank (NAB) is in discussions with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to purchase ABN AMRO Australia Holdings' investment banking and wholesale banking businesses in Australia and New Zealand. A NAB statement released on the Australian ...