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Financial Standard launches eFinancialCareers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Financial Standard has joined forces with the specialist financial services recruitment group eFinancialCareers to launch FinancialStandard.eFinancialCareers. eFinancialCareers is part of the Financial News group operating in the US, the UK and now ...

Super roll-over promoter to serve time

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
A Gold Coast superannuation scheme promoter has been sentenced to jail for his part in dishonestly advising clients on the use of rolling over preserved benefits and putting the funds towards the purchase of a home. Rocco Ferrantino entered a guilty ...

Star ratings on staff? Only in China

The third largest bank in China, the Bank of China (BOC), has introduced the penultimate in 'customer satisfaction' surveys, asking customers to rate individual banking employees on the spot with a one-star to five-star rating based on service level. ...

Adelaide Bank targets growth through wealth management

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
Retiring Adelaide Bank chief executive, Barry Fitzpatrick, said the bank will aim for greater revenue diversification by ramping up the wealth management side of the business. Fitzpatrick's report in the bank's annual report, released yesterday, reveals ...

Pimco replacement smooth sailing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
Just weeks after announcing intentions to launch a new absolute return fixed interest fund, Pimco Australia, have lost their managing director and head of portfolio management, for Asia Pacific and already replaced him. Kumar Palghat, formerly bond ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
The headline news over the weekend was the G7 meeting in Singapore where the world's seven richest nations met to discuss current and future economic hurdles. The group sees its member countries continuing to steam ahead in the high energy prices environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rose 12.5 per cent to a score of 101.2 following a 16.2 per cent fall after the last interest rate rise. The improvement in the index is being seen a s a consequence of the improvement in petrol ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Data released yesterday on lending finance up until July showed that housing finance increased 1.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from the level in June. The value of dwelling purchases for rent or re-sale fell by 10.5 per cent on a seasonally ...

KiwiSaver takes off

New Zealand's Parliament has approved the KiwiSaver Bill, a new set of laws that will enforce a voluntary work-based savings scheme effective 1 July next year. KiwiSaver is NZ's equivalent to Australia's compulsory superannuation system but unlike the ...

Taxman fee for DIY funds trebles

The amount that self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors will have to pay the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will treble from $45 to $150 as part of the government's proposed superannuation reforms, effective 1 July 2007. The 'supervisory levy' increase ...