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Mobile age drives up demand for storage: Abacus

With an increasing number of people moving house or traveling frequently overseas, more investors are turning their attention to the untapped potential of the self storage industry, according to Abacus Property Group. The group manages Abacus Storage ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

AIG Life appoints head of group insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
AIG Life has appointed a former AustralianSuper executive as the new head of group insurance. Damien Green, the former AustralianSuper general manager of business development, will now head up AIG Life's group insurance division. Green said his focus ...

S&P to rate NZ financials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Standard & Poor's is set to launch a new relative ratings scheme for New Zealand non-bank finance entities. Standard & Poor's New Zealand Relative Strength Ratings will measure the relative financial strength of New Zealand non-bank finance entities ...

LG teams up with ipac on succession

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
LG Financial Strategies, a Charter Financial Planning practice, has joined ipac's Equity Partners Program to help solve its succession planning challenges. LG Financial Strategies principal, Rohan Gulasekharam, considered a variety of succession planning ...

LGSS reaps $6m from SRI

The Local Government Superannuation Scheme's (LGSS) initiative to follow a strict socially responsible investing (SRI) policy paid off to the tune of more than $6 million, proof you don't have to be bad to be good. The LGSS board calculated that its ...

Skandia buys Intech to form $13b platform and research co

Platform provider Skandia has acquired investment consultant Intech for an undisclosed sum in a move that forms a massive platform and research group with over $13 billion in funds under management. In a surprise move that both parties have managed ...

Matrix planner wins AFA Rising Star Award

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Jason Danjoux, a Matrix Planning Solutions representative, has taken out the AFA Rising Star Award 2006 in a close decision over his fellow finalists. The AFA Rising Star Award, sponsored by ING, recognises the dynamic talents of some of the industry's ...

Henry Financial Group joins Genesys

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Financial Planning Association (FPA) director Leonie Henry's advice business, the Henry Financial Group, has joined the Genesys Wealth Advisers network. Brisbane based Henry Financial Group has been in business for 20 years but Leonie Henry said moving ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on a positive lead from from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0714 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 23 points at 5,331. On the economic front today, the latest consumer ...