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Asgard enhances SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Asgard Wealth Solutions partnered with smartsuper to improve its self managed super fund (SMSF) administration service to its clients. The agreement allows Asgard to provide a broader administration service for trustees, members and advisers. Previously ...

Collins challenges planner model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Financial planners could become irrelevant if they don't change the way they deliver advice to baby boomer and retired clients, according to Tom Collins, The Tom Collins Consultancy managing director. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Collins ...

AXA buys Challenger's Genesys

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
AXA's influence in Australia's financial advice industry is set to escalate with today's $150 million purchase of Challenger's financial planning business Genesys Wealth Advisers and proprietary platform Synergy. The deal, which is expected to be finalised ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The 2020 Summit final report has good news for infrastructure investors looking for directional certainty. The 399 page report lists three big ideas to help Australian investors build new infrastructure that should influence government policy around ...

Clear lines between ratings and research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Credit rating agencies and financial product research houses play vastly different roles when it comes to assessing the value of an investment, said Property Investment Research (PIR). Last week, the government ordered a review of ratings agencies and ...

JP Morgan breaks into NZ with musical

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
JPMorgan Australia is using its sponsorship of the long-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera, to heighten awareness of the JP Morgan brand in New Zealand. "We received our registered banking licence late last year [in New Zealand] and we have someone ...

BT and Asgard to lead platform market

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
Nearly one third of all Australian financial planners will call the combined BT/Asgard their primary platform should the Westpac and St.George merger come to fruition. Westpac and St.George yesterday signed a merger implementation agreement - taking ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Emissions trading won't lower emissions production as all it does is force up the profits of carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens ...

PRINT and JUST to form Media Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER are merging to form Media Super on 1 July - creating a fund with nearly $3 billion in assets. According to a joint statement, more than 110,000 members and 12,000 employers across the printing, media, entertainment and arts ...

AUD hits 24 year high against greenback

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Australian dollar this morning hit a 24 year high against the US greenback. The AUD was trading at 95.5 cents, up 2 per cent since the beginning of the month and up a staggering 16.2 per cent since this time last year. Against the Euro and the Chinese ...