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Investors will be compensated for dud advice: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
Financial services licensees must have measures in place so they can compensate retail clients if the advice or services they provide are found to be "inappropriate". The measures are part of a new regulation just announced by the Government and may ...

Local banks face global assault

A leading e-commerce expert is urging local banks to re-evaluate their IT services or risk losing market share to global providers. The power has shifted from banks to the customers and the provider who can handle the scale and global demands of financial ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

Perennial Investment Partners' monthly Investors Index has found that April was an excellent month for investors in property and shares. "Global property has benefited from both a shift in institutional investor asset allocation in the developed markets ...

ASX200 option for legalsuper

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Legal sector super fund legalsuper has launched a new ASX200 investment option, giving members the opportunity to invest up to 50 per cent of their super in top 200 listed companies. legalsuper joins a small but growing list of industry funds flicking ...

Aussies finally get life insurance message: IFSA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Life and wealth protection sales grew by nearly 16 per cent in the 12 months to December 2006, according to new figures released yesterday by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). The sales increase comes after a major study by TNS ...

AFS increases stake in Salisbury

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
AFS has acquired a 'strategic stake' The Salisbury Group (TSG) dealership, adding 30 financial planning practices to its books and expanding its Funds Under Advice (FUA) to $6 billion. The full extent of the increase is unclear, as AFS chief executive ...

LDI spurs growth of bond derivatives

The demand for inflation-linked bonds and their derivatives is set to rise in tandem with the growing popularity of liability driven investing (LDI) in Australia and overseas, according to experts. As the name suggests, LDI is a form of investment strategy ...

AXA boosts profits, broadens Asian market reach

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
AXA chairman Rick Allert announced a 25 per cent jump in net profits, increases in capital and investment earnings and the acquisition of Winterthur Hong Kong at AXA's AGM last week. Net profit was up from $542.4 million in 2005 to $677.8 million in ...

Web videocalls invigorate rural banking and remote advice

One of the country's largest credit unions, New England Credit Union (NECU), is making headway in regional banking and remotely offering financial advice through web-based videoconferencing. NECU's theme song could well go, "I've been to Armidale, Barraba ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund seemed in dire trouble last week as it was revealed funds destined for retirement funding had been diverted to cover more immediate expenditure, in a theme echoing some of the recent debate around Australia's ...