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Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... hope their Wellbeing Index will fill the gap. Despite overall happiness being quite stable, according to the survey satisfaction with government jumped 7 per cent between October 2006 and October 2007. But the big surprise is that satisfaction with national ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
IRESS' planning software, XPLAN, has recorded the highest level of satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... with their main DIY investment broker with only 3 in 4 rating their broker as good/very good - a comparatively low satisfaction score among investment products. The recent takeovers of Neville Ward Director, InvestSmart and most recently Sanford, means ...

Northern Trust bags award

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... the size of its existing franchise, new and significance of new mandates secured, thought leadership, and customer satisfaction and retention. The government's Future Fund awarded a $51 billion custody mandate to Northern Trust last year - the most ever ...

Gen X and baby boomers clash on FP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... According to the Lifeplan University of Adelaide's International Centre for Financial Services (ICFS) Financial Advice Satisfaction Index, volatile markets have impacted how younger investors perceive their financial planner's overall performance, with ...

No super for many small businesses

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... were with their total superannuation balance. Only 31 per cent of respondents reported moderate to high degrees of satisfaction with their retirement provisions. Graeme Colley, technical manager of ING's self managed super fund administration product ...

Super switchers fall

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... planners. Products obtained through financial planners other than the 'big six' also seem to have a higher level of satisfaction with financial performance, even when the financial planner was perceived as "independent". The survey concluded there was ...

FuturePlus appoints new chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
... services," he said. He said annual quantitative studies revealed FuturePlus had one of the highest levels of member satisfaction of any superannuation related business. Co-owned by EISS and LGSS, FuturePlus has more than $12 billion in assets under management ...

Customer satisfaction is a measure of indifference

Bankers on a panel at a conference in Sydney last week were asked what value they got from customer satisfaction surveys, two of which had just been released. No one on the panel, which included National Australia Bank executive general manager of business ...

Word of mouth works: Tyndall

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... number of their clients in this most loyal group obviously have a stable and more valuable business and have the satisfaction that what they are doing for their clients, is appreciated."