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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Following on from his comments on the need for discussions about the future of the oil industry at the forthcoming November Group of 20(G20) meeting to be held in Melbourne, Treasurer Peter Costello has added that there needs to be a widening of the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
Treasurer Costello has given notice that at the forthcoming November Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Melbourne there will be fertile discussion about the oil market and the need for a stronger institutional ...

MLC and Aon take out top insurance awards

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
MLC Insurance took out the life insurance company of the year award at the Australian and New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards, with Aon Australia being named broker of the year for the second consecutive year. Aon Australia's national general manager ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2006

More than 180 delegates attended last night's 2006 Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards which recognised the outstanding achievements in marketing, sales and business development by an individual, a group of individuals or organisation in Australia's ...

FuturePlus eyes international property

Hands up if you're an international property fund manager with a strong business case. FuturePlus chief investment officer Terry Newson wants to hear from you. At Financial Standard's Best Practice seminar on building a global investment portfolio held ...

Finsia takes off with a new president

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
Finsia, the newly merged entity combining the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) and the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance (AIBF), completed its evolution at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), held today. The AGM was the last step in ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has hired a new chief information officer with a brief to integrate the bank's funds management jumble of legacy systems. CBA yesterday said it hired Michael Harte as its new chief information officer. Harte is currently CIO ...

Perpetual add to direct property team

Perpetual Limited (Perpetual) have filled the position of senior analyst of direct property to help build new retail and institutional direct property products, and to join their other three recent appointments to the group. Orion Jandera, formerly ...

S&P react to TOWER PrefSure deal

S&P ratings services (S&P) have reacted to yesterday's announcement that TOWER group (TOWER) has bought PrefSure Life Ltd (PrefSure) to shore up and grow their master trust and life insurance business. S&P have left TOWER's ratings unchanged for now ...

ING software roll-out to reduce the SoA burden

ING is set to roll-out a new online limited advice solution to reduce the Statement of Advice burden for advisers. Using a customised version of XPLAN's financial planning software, ING will launch the online limited advice solution as part of its substantial ...