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CommBank buys IWL

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... to a month to complete. Tait said the company's wholesale capacity was a major reason for the purchase. He said while the basic integration plans had been decided, the bank still needed to research and conduct due diligence to clarify "the way forward." ...

Transition to retirement still a mystery

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... Webber said he found many Australian investors were confused about how to manage and implement TTR's. "We received very basic questions like: 'if I start a TTR pension can I keep making contributions to my superannuation?' right through to more complex ...

CommBank gets online upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... security and cut by nearly half the time spent by customers navigating through their various web pages. The approach may sound basic, but the bank said customers' banking experience would improve through initiatives such as a simpler personal banking ...

Fiducian launches India fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... said the fund's investments are weighted towards infrastructure, power and banking with 13 per cent invested in metals and basic engineering, 12 per cent in construction and 11 per cent in technology. The mid cap stock bias of the fund is designed to ...

Back to basics: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Investors may have had a great run over the last twenty-five years, but the 20-year anniversary of 'Black Tuesday' reinforced the need to look back and learn the lessons of the last two decades, according to visiting Vanguard chairman and chief executive ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
The Australian sharemarket continued in the red at noon following a poor performance on Wall Street as US stocks were hammered by record high oil prices and a weak earnings report from Citigroup. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had shed ...

The many faces of income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Retirees should diversify their income portfolios because income-type products are not like they used to be. Bruce Murphy, head of distribution at Macquarie Funds Management, urged investors to go back to the basics of income investing and start questioning ...

Marketwrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is higher at noon following a rebound in the US market overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 68.6 points to 6168.9 and the all ordinaries added 67.4 points to 6168.8. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... Turner, executive editor of UK personal news site, Finance Markets, "a combination of falling supply and rising demand for basic food produce is set to bring serious inflationary pressures to central banks later this year." Drought and flooding across ...

Retirement gets more expensive: ASFA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... prices. The survey defined a modest retirement lifestyle as "Better than the Age Pension, but still only able to afford fairly basic activities," while a 'comfortable retirement lifestyle' meant being able to get involved in "a broad range of leisure ...