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Women priced out of life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
More than two in five women with dependents have no life insurance because many perceive purchasing life insurance to be a costly, time-consuming exercise, according to an Allianz report. Meredith Barnes, national development manager, said women either ...

CFS buys music copyright assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... Works, a fund that will be launched later this year, will become one of the world's largest music catalogue owners after purchasing contemporary music company Wind-up Entertainment. The Wind-Up Entertainment catalogue features soundtracks to Daredevil ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... invest directly into many of these areas," he said. Some funds have already taken the lead, with Sunsuper recently purchasing Colonial First State Private Capital (CFI) infrastructure fund for $116 million, following from other funds who put money into ...

Centric buys PKF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Centric Wealth has made its final pre-listing acquisition, purchasing planner group PKF Financial Services. The company conducts PKF's financial planning business in Sydney and Brisbane and has approximately $400 million in assets under advice across ...

Planners move from vanilla to neapolitan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
An increasing trend for planning groups to add services continues to emerge with ING's Millenium3 purchasing Mawson Group and Lachlan Wealth Management's PMG Group purchasing accountancy business Smith, Peacock and Henshaw (SPH). ING can already draw ...

Canada next on PIS list

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... the advisory practices in Canada they are not taking equity positions but simply providing support. "The problem with purchasing equity in the practice is it then ties the practice to the company and its products and many accounts quite rightly will ...

Westpac ends senior IT exec hunt

... Westpac's general manager, banking operations. While at the bank, she oversaw back office functions and was involved in purchasing, property and retail support, including operations and technology. She also played a lead role in the post-merger integrations ...

Australia trailing towards the future

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... Normal also pointed out Australian's housing affordability was now at record lows, with the average Australian wage purchasing a mere seven per cent of the Sydney median house price last year, compared with 70 per cent in 1966. Looking to the future ...

Insurance made easier for associations and clubs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) proposal to attack underinsurance. The consultation paper proposes that group purchasing bodies, until now seen as insurance sellers, should be treated as regular consumers, eliminating licensing, registration ...

Fund managers better buyers than sellers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... explained managing director of Inalytics (Asia Pacific), Amanda Field. According to Inalytics' quantitative analysis, good purchasing decisions can generate 154 basis points of alpha in a typical portfolio. Unfortunately bad selling decisions will cost ...