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Challenger recycles capital

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... capital through an on-market program. The company, in its announcement, tied the share buyback to receipt of proceeds from the sale of Genesys Wealth Advisers and Synergy Capital Management to AXA Asia Pacific for $150 million. However, another way of ...

ING NZ appoints first Aus chief

CAMERON BOGGS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Helen Troup, ING Australia's executive director of Life Risk, has been promoted as the first Australian chief executive of ING New Zealand. Paul Bedbrook, regional chief executive of ING Asia Pacific said Troup was promoted to the role after driving ...

Commissions mgmt systems need work

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
Financial planners are flagging the need for better electronic payment systems as many continue to think poorly about the accuracy and quality of existing commissions management systems. A recent InvestmentLink survey shows 80 per cent of dealer licensees ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is likely to open higher today tracking US markets which gained overnight. At 0804 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index was down eight points to 5,130. In economic news today, the Australian ...

NZ economy goes negative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
Just as Australian fund managers turn their attention towards New Zealand as they try to take advantage of Kiwisaver and NZ Super, the land of the long white cloud has dipped into negative economic growth and looks set to fall into recession. "The New ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after Wall Street fell on concerns that record oil prices and the seemingly endless credit crisis will further damage the economy. Resource stocks may gain after commodities including oil, gold ...

SMSFs take up instalment warrants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Instalment warrants will become more widely used by self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees as they become familiar with the strategy and banks start providing more products that enable them to do so, according to SuperConcepts. Graeme Colley, ING Australia ...

Perpetual to expand product line

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Perpetual is looking to roll out more income and structured products to meet growing adviser demand as it concludes its restructure next week. Damian Crowley, Perpetual general manager of adviser distribution, said although there had been legislation ...

HSBC opens wholesale wealth mgmt Down Under

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
Banking giant HSBC, which runs a $414 billion-plus investment management arm, is setting up a wholesale wealth management business in Australia. HSBC's newest business will be led by ex-Barclays Global Investors head of sales, consulting relationships ...

Oil prices force end to corporate profit boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
While wealth managers know all about what's driving energy prices and the science behind climate change, the missing question is what does it all mean for investors? Matthew Sherwood, senior manager for investment markets research at Perpetual, has ...