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FPA joins IFSA in mental health initiative

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Planners will take on the mantle of providing better insurance cover for people with depression or other mental illnesses after their representative body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) joined life insurance industry players in signing this ...

Motivational advice for advisers

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER OF THE AFA CONFERENCE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
Motivation is hard to come by when the entire world is suffering from a debilitating crisis of confidence, but an upcoming adviser conference will highlight that persistence in the face of adversity pays. The organisers behind next week's Association ...

CHOICE warns of online fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Consumer watchdog CHOICE has outlined a list of online identity fraud techniques to protect consumers against the growing threat. CHOICE estimates identity fraud costs Australians roughly $1 billion affecting 500,000 people every year. Most are hit ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
Following last Monday's preview of a financial market pandemonium, there was little doubt in anyone's mind that the US Senate will pass the Treasury's US$700 billion rescue package. The Senate voted 74 to 25 in favour of the Emergency Economic Stabilization ...

AXA to ramp up planning revenues by $60m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Advisers are expected to add up to $63 million to their books over the next five years through a new three-pronged business plan from AXA. AXA's new strategy revolves around the formula of securing the appropriate business partnerships, maximising the ...

S&P reinstates ratings for 18 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Another 18 products have been taken off Standard & Poor's 'On Hold' list after reassuring the ratings house that its "business as usual" despite ASIC's ban on short selling. The 18 funds, which include heavyweights such as the BT Global Return Fund ...

Australian Unity focuses on wellbeing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Physical wellbeing is just as important as financial wellbeing so for healthcare services provider and fund manager Australian Unity, why not look after both? It's been a stomach-churning time for many companies, Australian Unity not least one of them. ...

Centric raises $100m in rights issue

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
Centric Wealth struck an agreement with CHAMP Private Equity to underwrite a $100 million rights issue to retire short-term debt and buy more businesses. The rights issue is underwritten by CHAMP II Fund and must be approved by shareholders. Michael ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Heads, you lose US$1 trillion. Tails, you lose US$700 billion. This is the stark choice that stares the US Congress in the face after seeing the market pandemonium that followed their rejection of the Treasury/Federal Reserve's bail-out package. Relative ...

Govt breathes new life into RMBS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Rudd Government's move to set up a government-sponsored mortgage body and invest in $4 billion of Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) should reinvigorate the ailing RMBS market and re-instate it as an attractive asset class ...