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Pillar to get $4.5 million IT upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
Super fund administrator Pillar is to get a $4.5 million IT hardware and data storage upgrade. The development initiative was announced in yesterday's NSW Government Budget. Pillar is wholly owned by the NSW Government. In its Budget statements, the ...

All is fair in love and bankruptcy

Small business mums and dads will be the worst affected by the new bankruptcy rule that allows bankruptcy trustees to take away the family home even if only one spouse goes bankrupt, regardless of who paid what for the property. Geoff McDonald, barrister ...

E*TRADE picks up HSBC Stockbroking

ETRADE Australia (E*TRADE) has paid $51.3 million for HSBC Stockbroking in a deal that adds 40,000 accounts to the group and increases its market share by 6.54 per cent. E*TRADE's chief executive, Brett Spork, said this is the company's first acquisition ...

Russell re-shuffle to tap alternatives with $8bn more on board

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
Russell Investment Group is tapping into the alternative investments boom, hiring several new senior consultants to boost its Melbourne based institutional team while at the same time receiving $8 billion in new mandates. Andrew Goddard will take on ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
New asset consulting frontier Kate Hage 315 Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers, it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's ...

Bravura set to fire with ASX listing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Superannuation software solutions and consulting group Bravura Solutions is seeking to raise around $40 million through an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listing and has just lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Investors get money back from failed mortgage scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Thirty-seven Queensland investors have recovered money invested in a failed solicitor's mortgage scheme which the Federal Court found negligently and deliberately misled them. Led by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the class ...

Our master is the government: FF boss

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
The Future Fund is the government's money and it is the boss, said Future Fund chairman David Murray in an interview yesterday. Speaking on ABC TV, Murray said this also means the Government can dictate what shares are placed into the Fund, even though ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent - the highest they have been since August 2001 and the seventh consecutive hike in the country's official interest rates. In the US, interest rate watchers will welcome the ...

Perpetual profits to jump 13 per cent

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2006
Perpetual has forecast a 13 per cent jump in its 2006 full year after tax profits on the back of strong net inflows. Perpetual Chairman, Robert Savage, said he expected the growth story to continue well through this year and into calendar year 2007. ...