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Opes Prime appoints head of sales

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
Opes Prime has appointed a new head of sales and marketing to help drive the expansion of the business. Mark Rice brings 12 years of financial services experience to the role, including time spent as stockbroking manager for Adelaide Bank and as national ...

Life settlement fund launches in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
A wholesale fund that enables investors to gain exposure to life insurance policy settlements is now available in Australia. The fund works like a fixed interest investment as the portfolio managers trade life settlements on the secondary market where ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Non-forestry agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) are set to have their taxation position drastically altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
The peak body for mortgage and business finance brokers, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA), may be forced to rewrite its membership rules if the competition watchdog upholds a complaint. The MFAA, formerly the Mortgage Industry ...

Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

Virgin Super climbs up the Rainmaker Data performance tables to rank 30th out of over 200 competing products, another proof that index investing delivers value-for-money to investors. Launched in July 2005, Virgin Super offers two products, one for ...

End for scheme scamming Greek community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
An unregistered managed investment scheme has been ordered into liquidation and its directors banned from carrying on a similar business after they raised over $2.5 million from investors, predominantly from Melbourne's Greek community. The Supreme ...

New year, new products, new chief

Securities lending and equity financing specialist Opes Prime has re-jigged its management team, appointed a new chief executive and signalled new product launches this year. Recently appointed non-executive chairman, Peter Gillooly, said the new management ...

INVESCO boosts insto team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
INVESCO has appointed an ex-NAB executive as head of institutional client relationships to work closely with recently appointed head of institutional sales, Peter McClelland. Juliana Howard was appointed to the role of head of institutional client relationships. ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Further analysis of the National Australia Bank Business Survey shows that the index which fell 3 points from November to December is now 7 points less than its recent peak in October of last year but still significantly above the long-run average of ...