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ANZ drops ING brand for OnePath

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
ING's brand will be phased out as ANZ renames ING's specialist funds management and life insurances businesses in Australia and New Zealand as OnePath. Products and services under the acquired ING Australia business will come under the OnePath brand. ...

Planners risk buying bad businesses

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
It's a seller's market for financial planners looking to put their firms on the auction block - but planning groups that do buy risk failure as many do not focus enough on their acquisition's investment returns, according to AXA. Speaking at an AFA ...

Asian dark pools open to instos

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... to provide buy-side and sell-side investors access to a deep pool of anonymous liquidity for exclusive execution of Asian block trades. Its continuous order matching and execution minimises transaction costs and eliminates information leakage into the ...

Seniors warn Coalition on super policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Australia's largest seniors' organisation, National Seniors Australia, has warned the Coalition to scrap its plans to block the SG increase and the lifting of the SG age limit from 70 to 75. National Seniors Australia (NSA) chief executive Michael O'Neill ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... of "severe" deterioration in the government's debt metrics. The IMF and the EU and the World Bank chopped Hungary off the block. They suspended talks with the Hungarian government. In other words, Hungary won't be able to access the US$25.1 billion standby ...

NAB granted more time on AXA bid

PRESS RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH), AXA SA and National Australia Bank (NAB) have agreed to extend the period for NAB to address the competition commission's concerns till the end of August. The comes after all three entities announced they were close ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
The Australian market is likely to open higher after another surge on overseas markets overnight. Key indices were higher, as was oil and copper, although silver and gold were lower. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
The Australian market received mostly flat to negative leads from major Asian and European markets on Monday as Wall Street remained closed for the July 4 Public Holiday in the US. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The Australian market is expected to open lower on mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street's key indices were flat to lower, precious and base metals and oil were down, but European markets were higher. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The elevation of Julia Gillard to become Australia's first female Prime Minister, which increases the odds the government will be re-elected and possibly win back a few senate seats, makes it more likely that the government's financial services reform ...