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CFS adds to sales team

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... to upgrade its offerings, including in the area of life products, the inclusion of total and permanent disability (TPD) inside the income protection stream as well as increasing the number of critical illnesses covered from 41 to 45.

St Andrew's grows in leaps and bounds

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... "As part of HBOS Australia, we've been able to leverage our ability to cross-sell within the group to BankWest customers. Inside and outside the HBOS Australia group we've focused on attracting customers by providing low-cost, straightforward products ...

Industry pleads for greater professionalism

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... dealt with through disclosure. That clearly hasn't worked." Also via video, Alan Kohler, publisher of Eureka and ABC's Inside Business commentator, said how consumers were paid should be comparable with how accountants and lawyers are paid. "That is ...

ASIC pursues Citigroup for alleged insider trading

... significant case raising two very important issues for the securities industry: having adequate arrangements for managing inside information and dealing with conflicts of interest. "ASIC is saying that Citigroup fell down on both fronts in relation to ...

Measure super choice the right way: InvestmentLink

Super choice is alive and kicking hard, but its being driven by people taking their old fund to their new employer rather than by traditional rollovers. Latest figures from superannuation information hub specialist InvestmentLink confirm that in just ...

SG is a tax: Tax Inquiry

The just-announced tax inquiry may lead to the unthinkable - an attack on the 9 per cent Super Guarantee (SG). Treasurer Peter Costello has just announced a broad review of taxation in Australia so the government can get clear figures comparing our ...

Financial Standard latest edition - out now

The second edition of Financial Standard for 2006 has hit readers' desks. What's inside? Cover story: Choice option to "stay". Brumbie: Super saving furphies. Special feature: Planning for the future of planning. Kate Hage investigates the critical ...

Rise and rise of consumer confidence with planners: CSAM

... client relationship as well as the industry's ability to show they can deliver value for money. Confirming views of many inside the industry who suffer scrutiny from three regulators and out-of-control compliance, those surveyed said financial planning ...

Insider trading fears undermining investor confidence

A report commissioned by institutional investors has revealed too many company directors are trading during 'black-out' periods or are failing to tell the market when they are trading their own company shares. The report was sponsored by BT Governance ...

CommInsure joins life insurance innovators

... complying annuity." On life products, CommInsure has upgraded its products to include total and permanent disability (TPD) inside the income protection stream. Swanson says, "We argue that the [insurance] industry has always struggled to decide between ...