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Century Funds vies to take manager role from Opus

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Century Funds Management will make a bid as manager and responsible entity of the Opus Income & Capital Fund No. 21, to be decided by vote on February 28. The fund manager, which has $900 million in invested property and funds, said that the major unitholders ...

Bendigo wealth mgmt posts $23m profit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Bendigo & Adelaide's wealth management division accounted for 14 per cent of the bank's total profit after tax of $173.9 million in the half year to December, according to results released this morning. During the half year, the group's wealth arm contributed ...

BT Financial expands into insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
BT Financial Group hopes to replicate its success in the superannuation market when it launched BT Super of Life with the launch of a range of insurance products under its new brand, BT Insurance. "This is a logical next step in BT's innovation agenda... ...

ING DIRECT launches term deposit

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
ING DIRECT has launched a new term deposit product that gives account holders the option to select the maturity date of their term deposit at any time and do it online. "We see this as a simple way of improving an already popular product to better fit ...

Ahead of the pack

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE MEDIA PARTNER OF THE MFSS.  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Every industry needs game changers - a select crowd that stirs the pot or keeps raising the bar for everyone else. In financial services, they can be found within the ranks of the innovators and the pioneers. Early next month the Australian Centre for ...

Commission ban to widen underinsurance gap: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Six in ten Australians are less likely to seek risk advice if they have to pay fees upfront rather than through commission paid to their financial adviser, a consumer survey found. The survey differs from previous surveys done on the commission versus ...

Sunsuper launches planner scholarship

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Sunsuper addresses gender diversity in financial services by funding scholarships designed for budding female financial planners. The inaugural Marion Munro scholarship, established in honour of a Sunsuper financial planner who lost her life to breast ...

AvSuper crunches numbers with new calculator

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Online calculators may be a dime a dozen in finance land but a growing number of super funds, including AvSuper, are trying a different tack by customising their online tools to the specific needs of their members. The super fund launched the online ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was flat at noon on Thursday, with only slight gains and losses across the board. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.4 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 4,907.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up ...

Henderson Maxwell launches DIY planning guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Sam Henderson, chief executive and senior financial planner with Henderson Maxwell, has launched a DIY financial planning book designed to reach those who don't have a financial planner and bring more credit to the industry which he said has received ...