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Challenger annuities post record sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Challenger's Guaranteed Income Plan annuities product received a record $91 million in August alone as financial advisers look for ways to preserve client income in retirement. In addition, while financial advisers are also allocating client money to ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
It's earnings season on Wall Street once more. But it might be different this time. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq narrowly escaped a broadly down day during last night's trading - both ending 0.3 per cent higher - while the Dow slipped by 0.1 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open flat on Thursday following weak leads from Wall Street and European markets overnight. At 0734 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was six points lower at 4710. ...

Campbell wins 2009 AFA Adviser of the Year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Graham Campbell, financial adviser at Complete Financial Balance, has won the seventh AFA Adviser of the Year Award at the association's gala dinner held at the Gold Coast last night. The five other finalists this year were Marc Bineham from Noall & ...

Supercorp set to launch superMate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Supercorp Australia is poised to unveil superMate, its next generation self managed superannuation fund administration software built on the technology of its current flagship product, SuperVisor II. The new offering extends the existing SuperVisor ...

Christmas comes early for job seekers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Investment professionals who lost their jobs last year can take some comfort in the fact that 14 per cent of Australian firms plan to take on more staff in the lead up to Christmas. Planners and fund managers who faced the axe this time last year due ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger led by higher US and European stocks and rises in commodity prices. At 0730 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 41 points higher at 4624. In economic ...

Elders sells 51pc FP stake to Millenium3

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... cent. M3 is owned by ING Australia, one of Australia's leading fund managers, life insurers and superannuation providers. The sale will give Elders Financial Planning greater scale to expand its adviser network and make financial planning services more ...

Europe fails at fee disclosure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
The European fund industry is failing the fees transparency test - while Australian fund managers are facing their own woes when it comes to unbundling fund costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to the "Ideal Fund - Reengineering the ...

GFP snaps up Timbercorp assets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... Mark Korda and Leanne Chesser, liquidators of the Timbercorp group of companies, announced yesterday that they had signed a sale and purchase deed with ABP to sell the forestry assets as a going concern for approximately $345 million. "This is a good ...