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Henry Financial Group joins Genesys

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Financial Planning Association (FPA) director Leonie Henry's advice business, the Henry Financial Group, has joined the Genesys Wealth Advisers network. Brisbane based Henry Financial Group has been in business for 20 years but Leonie Henry said moving ...

Future Fund is a government subsidiary: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Despite arguments by the Future Fund board that it acts independently of politics, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated the obvious in saying it is a subsidiary of government. In its latest report on the Australian economy, the IMF has singled ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on a positive lead from from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0714 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 23 points at 5,331. On the economic front today, the latest consumer ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

Super fund QSuper has taken the extraordinary step of investing around $2 billion in derivative and swap contracts that mimic the performance of inflation-linked bonds as an alternative to buying the real thing. As the name suggests, inflation-linked ...

Suncorp set to pay $7.9b for Promina

Suncorp-Metway (Suncorp) has proposed to acquire all the shares in Promina for around $7.9 billion in a deal that would form a $20 billion diversified financial services group with Suncorp chief executive officer, John Mulcahy, at the helm. Under the ...

ING OneCare minds the insurance gap

ING's life insurance range OneCare grew sales by 65 per cent since January, proof that with the right product, people will buy insurance cover. Part of OneCare's appeal is that it offers insurance for 14 medical conditions not usually covered under ...

Not-for-profits need to engage with industry: IFSA

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Speaking at the Catholic Social Services Australia Conference on Wednesday, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive officer, Richard Gilbert, urged the not-for-profit sector to get more involved with industry to help underpin ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
A leading Australian think tank has called for more interventionist government policy to ready us for the economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

MLC analyst bags 2006 Future Leaders Award

MLC investment analyst, Myooran Mahalingam, has won the inaugural Future Leaders Awards, a joint initiative by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and Deloitte to recognise the voice of industry professionals aged under 30. The ...

Future Fund chair talks about T3 and politics

Speaking at the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards yesterday, Future Fund chairman, David Murray, shared his views on Telstra and why his fund will not get tangled up in government politicking. With a huge chunk of Telstra (T3) shares going into the ...