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Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
Financial planning dealer groups hold firm to their Japan allocations, expressing concerns for consumer confidence while being optimistic about new market opportunities. Investor and consumer confidence, already low due to the GFC and prolonged investor ...

ASIC clampdown on poor business models in advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will introduce tough measures - including suspension or cancellation of licences - against financial advice groups that have turned complacent on their compliance and dispute resolution policies. ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
A large hole has been punched in the Japanese economy by Friday's earthquake, with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute ...

BT Life fast tracks claims

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
BT Life has taken more steps to process income protection claims faster through its award-winning tele-claims service. Since launching tele-claims in March 2010, BT Life Insurance has seen almost 25 per cent of all income protection claims paid without ...

Vanguard saves $8.7m

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Investors emerged with savings of $8.7 million from Vanguard's wholesale index fund in 2010, thanks to reduced spread costs. A crossing or 'special spread' saving occurs when monies to be invested in a Vanguard fund are used to meet client withdrawals ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Wall Street bobbed up and down along the zero line last night, seemingly lost as to which way to go. At the end of the bell in New York, it decided just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. ...

CFS slashes entry bar to wholesale platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Colonial First State has launched an aggressive bid for market share by opening Australia's biggest wholesale investment platform to small investors, positioning itself for a future commission-free superannuation market. Colonial, a subsidiary of the ...

Management shake up at Zurich

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Zurich Financial Services Australia has embarked on a series of management changes as it aligns itself closer to its parent global structure. Zurich will maintain two clear operating businesses, general insurance, and life insurance and investments ...

Retail bank deposits hit $62bn in Dec qtr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Driven by high at-call interest rates and the post-GFC austerity wave, consumers are flocking to retail deposit accounts with $62 billion deposited in the December quarter alone. The surge pushed bank deposit holdings to $1.5 trillion, 15 per cent more ...

AUSCOAL adds Copper Rock and Putnam

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
AUSCOAL Super alters its $5.7 billion investment portfolio to include two new investment managers with a focus on the global bond market while redeeming its Alliance Bernstein mandate. Diversifying the super fund's international shares portfolio, AUSCOAL ...