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St.George launches 360 cash products

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... Online Account - an online account that provides at-call access to funds through internet and phone banking, and 360 Term Deposit, which offers the certainty of a guaranteed rate of interest over a fixed period. Damian Longo, head of transaction banking ...

FIIG opens corporate bonds to planners

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Fixed-income broker FIIG Securities has launched a new service that lets planners access corporate bonds for their clients that have traditionally been the preserve of banks, fund managers and the ultra wealthy. The new DirectBonds service lets investors ...

Fixed income gains pace among SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Planners are noticing an upward shift in SMSF investor sentiment towards fixed income investments, as attractive yields and increasing interest rates draw investor interest, new research shows. According to the latest Multiport SMSF Investment Trends ...

Henderson Maxwell pours $100m into MAs

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
Henderson Maxwell has transitioned $100 million into the Henderson Maxwell Managed Account Service for its clients. The managed account service has enabled Henderson Maxwell to deliver portfolios to clients that consist of Australian listed securities ...

Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... months after leaving Commonwealth Financial Planning, but has already hit the ground running - launching the firm's term deposit platform. "A lot of our clients are dealing with private banks and those banks are directing them to their term deposits," ...

PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... example, some banks have delayed passing on the RBA interest rate hikes immediately onto the interest rates of their term deposit products. These lower returns translate to money lost in the long run. Bennetts said it's all about giving their clients ...

Caution drives SMSFs to remain in cash: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... said. "We found [the bank's] customers prefer to balance the risks associated with equities with the certainty that a term deposit, with rates as high as 6.11 per cent per annum provides."

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... The current fee-free $1 million threshold is based on per-depositor per institution. The question maybe around the term deposit products on the various platforms," he said. "These have been used to fund the banks. The lack of diversity in the assets ...

CFS halts mortgage fund redemptions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... November 2008. Kraemer said mortgage funds would struggle to gain inflows because the banks are paying "very high" term deposit rates. Also, she said would financial planners find it difficult to access the products because most investment platforms ...

FIIG hires ex-Goldman Sachs exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
FIIG Securities has appointed former Goldman Sachs fixed income executive Simon Ward as associate director in fixed income sales, based in its Sydney office. In his new role, Ward will be responsible for buying and selling the full range of fixed-income ...