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Finsia launches fin services credential

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... to restore public confidence in the advice space," he said. Finsia has launched the credential using the proceeds from the sale of its education division to Kaplan in 2007.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while indices were down in Europe and Asia. Precious metals traded higher, as did oil and copper. At 0759 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

AXA sells UK life and savings business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... product areas of protection and corporate pensions. AXA confirmed media reports it was in talks with Resolution regarding the sale of its life and savings operations in the UK two weeks ago. AXA retains AXA Wealth Management, which includes its wrap ...

Challenger wins $650m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Challenger has won a $650 million mandate to be invested in its Guaranteed Index Return product, bringing the total guaranteed product sales for the life company to an estimated $2.15 billion this financial year. Stuart Barton, head of marketing and ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... houses sold in May 2010 was $200,900; the average sales price was $263,400. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of May was 213,000. This represents a supply of 8.5 months at the current sales rate." Yes, Virginia, that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Gold stocks provided the only bright spot on an otherwise bleak day of trade as the Australian stock market slid into the red to sit one per cent lower at noon. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 52.3 points, or 1.15 per cent, to ...

ASIC starts short positions daily reporting

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
ASIC has started daily reporting of aggregated short positions on its website, following new reporting obligations introduced by the government to improve short sales transparency in Australia. The reports will be published on the ASIC website at www.asic.gov.au/short-position-reports. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... than the broader market after Apple Inc said it sold three million iPads in the first 80 days the tablet computers were on sale in the US. The stock rose 1.4 per cent and helped limit the losses in the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index. The selling intensified ...

Perkovic pushes for FirstWrap market share

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
Nearly six months since joining Colonial First State, Marianne Perkovic, general manager of distribution, is expanding the reach of CFS' FirstWrap platform by hiring a new head of platform sales and targeting SMSF planners. Perkovic said one of her ...

Investors turn to rev mortgages for income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... peaked in 2006 at $714 million to $367 million in 2009. The study found brokers and financial planners accounted for half the sale of reverse mortgages.