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Fin services shines in Telstra Awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... the Sensis Social Responsibility Award and Queensland-based Aspire Retire Financial Services was named the MYOB Small Business of the Year in the state-based categories. All three businesses progress to the next stage; the national Telstra Business Awards ...

MLC wins life insurer of the year

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
MLC has won the 2009 Life Insurance Company of the Year by the Australia & New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) for the fourth time in six years. The firm's product design, customer and adviser research and upgrade philosophy were ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Cuscal and Payment Adviser have partnered to provide 2 million small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with a superannuation transaction service that will cut costs and make it easier to make employee payments. The superannuation clearing house will ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... plus a few percentage points. Interest rates on other forms of lending - business and home equity lines of credit, small business loans and student loans - are also based on Libor. This came about as a result of the 'advances' of modern finance which ...

Westpac lends aid to financial counsellors and SMEs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
Westpac will provide $1 million in funding and support to financial counselling organisations and expand its financial hardship program, Assist, into small-to-medium (SME) business lending. Westpac Group chief Gail Kelly said the $1 million in funding ...

Sherry attacks Hockey on super policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Hockey's appointment, the Opposition announced a proposal to pay a portion of superannuation guarantee obligations for small business for a certain period of time. The government assessed the potential cost of the proposal and found it could cost the ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... administration costs over the next decade. Rosenthal said the virtual model has other benefits as well, especially for small business. "Using this process, the employer can pay the day before the contribution is due. It's even faster than a direct debit ...

Small businesses to get two-year SG relief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) director of industry policy and economics, said any proposal that eases small business cash flow concerns would be looked at however, the proposed SG relief is not part of ACCI's submission to the Government. Meanwhile ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

Complaints on the rise: FOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is urging financial services providers to invest more in staff and systems to deal with client complaints after it found a high 23 per cent increase in the number of new disputes this year. FOS has released its ...