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Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
The government's proposed reforms to compulsory super give financial planners more reason to look after their next generation of clients. The recommended SG lift from 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2019/20 will, unfortunately, mean little for those who ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... like it -- that are now feeling the tremors. The Los Angeles Times reports that California's State Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing that other player in the subprime debacle - the ratings company Moody's Investor Services. According to the newspaper ...

Can fee-for-service insurance advice work?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
It is still too early to conclude that commissions-based insurance advice is affordable for the general public but two planning groups show that it can work for certain segments of the market. This month, MLC-owned planning group Godfrey Pembroke announced ...

Guardian signs Custom Solutions

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Colonial First State's Custom Solutions platform has signed a white label agreement with Suncorp Group-owned Guardian Financial Planning. The deal means Guardian advisers will be able to provide clients with a broad number of investment options, risk ...

Babson Capital targets growth in Oz

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
US-based Babson Capital Management, which bought a $200 million Babcock & Brown mezzanine debt portfolio, has hired two AMP Capital Investors executives in Australia with plans to turn its local arm into a multi-billion dollar operation in the next ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... President Obama signed into law America's healthcare reform bill. But wasn't Wall Street also cheering when Republican Scott Brown won Massachusetts because his victory put this health bill in doubt? Other reports pointed back at Greece for the market's ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... Bureau of Labor Statistics - "cannot say how much February's payroll employment was affected by the severe weather." What now brown cow? What now is that financial markets are left with continuing conjectures and suppositions of what lies ahead. What ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... dollar and 2 per cent against an already weakened euro. The trigger? A YouGov Plc opinion poll indicating that while Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party would win the 10 June elections, neither Labour nor the Conservatives would gain majority seats in ...

VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... directors David Iliffe and Andrew Grant. They were replaced by Dixon Advisory executives: Alan Dixon, Alex MacLachlan, Chris Brown and Chris Duffield. Nisbett and John Vatovec joined the board soon after. Brown, a VTP shareholder, said the proposal is ...

Guggenheim buys Security Benefit

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... billion in assets under supervision, will make an investment of approximately $US400 million in Security Benefit. Jarrod Brown, Bennelong Funds Management's chief executive, said "This is a very positive development for Security Benefit which supports ...