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End to unfair mortgage exit fees

ASIC AND CHOICE RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
ASIC has released a consultation paper on new laws regulating mortgage early exit fees, which are unconscionable or unfair. The new paper, titled Mortgage early exit fees: Unconscionable fees and unfair contract terms (CP 135), contains proposals that ...

Centrepoint and PIS merger agreement changed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The merger between Centrepoint Alliance and Professional Investment Services (PIS) is expected to go ahead but the agreement has changed. Centrepoint Alliance found no unanticipated issues with PIS during the due diligence process but the terms of the ...

Raising SG must remain despite RSPT outcome: Brogden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The Investment & Financial Services (IFSA) is calling on the government to commit to increasing the superannuation guarantee (SG) to 12 per cent regardless of the outcome of the Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) negotiations. Speaking at an IFSA member ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The Australian sharemarket has firmed on news that Julia Gillard will be Australia's new prime minister. At 1207 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.9 points, or 0.62 per cent, at 4514, as Julia Gillard made her first statement after being ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The elevation of Julia Gillard to become Australia's first female Prime Minister, which increases the odds the government will be re-elected and possibly win back a few senate seats, makes it more likely that the government's financial services reform ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
It was another ho-hum moment on Wall Street overnight. The Dow went down less than 1 per cent, then up less than 1 per cent, then closed 0.1 per cent higher. The same goes for the S&P 500 index... well, almost. It went down less than 1 per cent, up ...

Telstra Super appoints Leggo as chairman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
One of Australia's largest corporate super funds, Telstra Super, has appointed former AvSuper chairman David Leggo as its new independent chairman. Leggo starts on 1 July and has been appointed for a term of three years. The former long-serving chair ...

Rainmaker and endgame launch new marketing excellence award

Rainmaker Information is collaborating with financial services marketing specialist endgame communications to recognise the efforts of financial services firms with the best integrated marketing campaign in an inaugural award unveiled this month. The ...

Fortitude launches retail offering

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Hedge fund manager Fortitude Capital is in talks with BT and Macquarie to include its soon to be launched retail offering, Aurora Fortitude Diversified Income Trust, onto their platforms. Sheriden Hure, senior portfolio manager at Fortitude Capital ...