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PSS deploys Acurity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... superannuation clients. It is a fully integrated eCommerce solution with an extensible user interface. Pillar is Australia's third largest provider of superannuation services, currently administering accounts for over 1.5 million members. Pillar manage ...

Third Link signs key fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... managers including BlackRock, Colonial First State and Perennial will form the first set of underlying fund managers to the Third Link Growth fund, a fund-of-fund designed to donate $1.5 million each year to charity. The three fund managers, easily among ...

Energy investments surge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... up 60 per cent over 2006, noted a report by the Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI). Wind energy attracted one-third of the new capital and solar one-fifth. But interest in solar is growing rapidly on the back of major technological advances ...

Mariner targets European aged care

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... ingenuity to a market that has historically lacked creative thinking," said Scott Marinchek, executive partner, Mariner Third-Age Retirement Living. He added the group's portfolio will address the increasing demands of new generations of retirees that ...

Westpac restructures fin services and tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... activities of the Business Technology Solutions and Services (BTSS) arm, which will be disbanded following the restructure. The third division, technology, will be led by Bob McKinnon, who just joined the bank and was previously the chief investment ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... transitory, if not reversed, in the coming months. In the year to June, manufacturing output is down by 0.6 percent - the third consecutive fall. Meanwhile, capacity utilisation increased slightly to 79.9 percent from 79.6 percent in May but its trend ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after another steep fall in the oil price eased cost concerns in the US and helped drive Wall St over 2.5 per cent higher. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
US fund managers drive better governance in the companies they invest in by using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million ...

BOQ writes off franchise loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... volumes of less than $2 million a month, which is half the target set under each franchise's business plan, and perhaps a third of the lending required to produce a viable income for the owner. Reasons for the poor performance include the weak state ...

Businesses weighed down by choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
A survey of payroll managers found 60 per cent of respondents found the choice-of-fund process frustrating and labour-intensive, costing an average business tens of thousands of dollars each year on administration spend. The joint survey conducted by ...