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Industry funds target top end with TV campaign part 2

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
High net worth individuals are among the broader television audience that can expect to be targeted in round two of the controversial industry superannuation funds campaign that first aired on national television last year. The new campaign will feature ...

AXA provides more lending facilities

AXA Financial Advice Network (FAN) Licensees, AXA Financial Planning and Charter Financial Planning have teamed up with a third party mortgage distributor to bolster their suite of lending facilities. The new arrangement is with Alliere, a fully-owned ...

MISs distort agribusiness sector: McGauran

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has joined calls from some in the agriculture industry to curb the involvement of managed investment schemes chasing a tax break through the sector. Speaking to ABC's NewsRadio yesterday afternoon, McGauran ...

The feeling is mutual: Aust Unity

Australian Unity will remain a mutual company after a consultation with its members found that less than a third were in favour of a demutualisation. Six months ago the group issued a report to members which examined the pros and cons of staying a mutual ...

Bravura hits the ASX on the up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
Bravura Solutions debuted on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) yesterday, finishing the day's trading up around 10 per cent on its issue price. Bravura (ASX: BVA) raised $40 million issuing 35.7 million shares at a listing price of $1.12 per share ...

Westpac FP launches $500k super campaign

Westpac Financial Planning has launched a marketing campaign designed to help their existing clients realise the extra incentives to save for their retirement on the back of Treasurer Costello's proposed 2006 super reforms. In what is its first major ...

New appointment for APRA board

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello has appointed a new APRA board member to replace the outgoing Stephen Somogyi. John Trowbridge will join the board for three years, starting almost immediately from 1 July. In a statement issued by the Treasurer's office, Costello ...

LGSS appoints Intech in spite of sale plans

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) has appointed Intech Investment Consultants as their external asset consultant, only weeks after industry sources reported that Intech were circulating an information memorandum for the sale of 50 per cent ...

Online banking rules: Commonwealth

The Commonwealth Bank's inaugural E-money survey, an annual index of electronic banking usage in the country, has found that 85 per cent of Australians voted the internet as their preferred banking channel. Amid much debate in recent years about the ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
The wild gyration that has characterised financial market trading activity since mid-May continued to make its presence felt last week. Trading in stock and commodity markets remained highly volatile with prices swinging wildly. Anxious investors sold ...