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Make love not leverage

Financial Fools' Day is what some 4,000 anti-everything protesters dubbed the day when leaders of the G20 meet to hold a summit on 'how do we solve a problem like the GFC?' The protesters were railing against almost every issue known to man it seems. ...

Zurich upgrades insurance suite

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
Zurich Financial Services Australia improves the pricing of its life insurance products and revamps the firm's software to allow financial advisers to write insurance faster. The firm has cut the price of death cover and reduced the premium for TPD ...

ANZ sheds planning staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
ANZ plans to make 58 staff redundant from the bank's financial planning division citing poorer-than-expected demand for advice. According to an ANZ spokesperson, the bank reviewed its financial planning division numbers and cut the number of roles by ...

AVG targets hacker behaviour

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Financial services firms should look at behavioural technology and website pre-scanning as key tools in their fight against identity theft and cyber crime, according to IT security firm AVG. Global internet security firm has added another feature to ...

AFS school boosts revenues by 27 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Australian Financial Services (AFS) Business School graduates recorded a 27 per cent growth in revenues on average six months after they returned to the office. Peter Daly, AFS Group chief executive, said the Business School exceeded all the firm's ...

Alleron focuses on cash and mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Alleron Investment Management chief executive, Barry Littler is banking on the firm's $5 million in capital reserves and a $1 billion mandate pipeline to see the firm through the financial crisis. Littler said the firm's $5 million capital reserves ...

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later. Last week, Sybase ...

Future still belongs to super

Despite record low returns and plummeting consumer confidence in super, the sector is still on track to grow into a multi-trillion dollar savings pool, just at a slower rate than previously estimated. Key research groups have released projections for ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
True to script, history has not failed us. Like in most episodes following widespread market upheavals, increased regulation makes a comeback for an encore. Taking advantage of the global disgust at the rapid erosion of wealth caused by 'inventive' ...

Coin makes marketing easy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Coin is turning financial planners into graphic artists and marketing gurus after the technology firm added a new module that lets financial planners develop a stylish tailored marketing campaign. The Campaign Management Module allows financial planners ...