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More acquisitions on the cards: EQT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
Diversifying into funds management, private clients and corporate super and expanding northward into Queensland has helped push Equity Trustees to deliver a strong profit result for 2007 ahead of more expected acquisitions and growth next year. Equity ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Scores of US government officials along with housing executives vowed it could never happen, nonetheless, the national median price of American homes is expected to fall for the first time since statistics began in 1950. Economists forecast the decline ...

AMP loses share to banks in risk insurance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
... contemporary wealth protection business, its risk insurance division, made a profit of $59 million for the six months to June - unchanged from the previous corresponding period and down a little from the December half. The group's market share fell from ...

GoldLink loses luster

Fund manager GoldLink is the latest victim of the volatile sharemarket and has announced on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it will wind down its investment portfolios and return money to investors. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's Fund ...

ASIC to tighten debenture regulations

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a consultation paper proposing tighter regulation of the unlisted, unrated debenture market following the collapse of companies like Westpoint and ACR. The paper, unlisted, unrated ...

Erste Bank signs SimCorp for fund platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
SimCorp Dimension has scored a major coup after it signed a funds management and administration IT contract with Erste Bank, one of the largest financial services group in Central and Eastern Europe. The Austrian banking giant will use SimCorp as its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after a mixed result on Wall Street and falls in some commodity prices. At 758 AEST, the September Share Price Index was down 29 points to 5939 on the Sydney futures exchange. In data today ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
Australian stocks were firmer at noon, after the US Federal Reserve's market intervention last Friday gave impetus to the local bourse. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had climbed 196 points to 5867 and the All Ordinaries gained 194.5 points ...

SMSF numbers show huge jump

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
Self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) manager Super Concepts has recorded a 177 per cent increase in funds established last financial year, pushing funds under administration over the $2 billion mark. The growth spurt marks a 21 per cent increase ...

SA posts record planner growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
The number of financial planners recruited in South Australia have risen over the past year eclipsing the growth rate in other states, according to eJobs Financial Planning. The survey found that the number of financial planner job advertisements in ...