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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket had dipped into the red at noon, pulled down by resources but supported by the banks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 2.9 points, or 0.07 per cent, at 4301.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index had ...

ING OneAnswer taps online insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
ING Australia's OneAnswer superannuation offering now provides a new online life insurance application and case management capability. This technology upgrade allows advisers to write and manage group life insurance applications for their OneAnswer ...

Leisure assets fall after GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Macquarie Leisure Trust Group's tangible asset values declined by 9 per cent to $620 million at the end of June after the group revalued its property portfolio. In an ASX statement, the group said the Dreamworld/WhiteWater World, d'Albora Marinas, AMF ...

Dead cat bouncers dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
Hi ho...hi ho, it's off to work we go! The news just got better. If you thought Australia's latest unemployment reading was great, you'll certainly be rejoicing - as Wall Street did - at the reduction in America's jobless rate. Here at home, the Australian ...

Trustees must not be victimised: APRA

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
The chief executive of an employer association is facing criminal prosecution for allegedly sacking two employees who were trustees of the association's super fund because they didn't renew an outsourcing contract the fund had with the association. ...

Ripoll Inquiry must build on FSR progress: AFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... raised the bar for advisers. "That system is still pretty young," said Klipin. "It's not perfect we know that there's too much red tape. "However, the current FSR system led to greater trust from consumers in a documented process that met their needs ...

Bravura extends relationship with Sybase

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Bravura Solutions and Sybase have teamed up to provide Talisman, a wealth management platform, on a hosted basis in the UK. The deal means Bravura Solutions is able to provide secure hosted applications to support clients' wrap propositions from its ...

AMP service speeds up underwriting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
AMP has unveilled a new process to slash the time to access medical records, freeing up a major roadblock in the underwriting process. AMP chief underwriter Bernadene Gordon said that the new phone-based service, TeleDr, would dramatically reduce underwriting ...

How planners can cope with redundancy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Dealer group Financial Services Partners (FSP) partners with work/balance author Andrew May to publish a book that attempts to help planners cope with redundancy. The book comes at a time when planning firms are forced to make staff redundant as their ...

Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Meg Heffron and Ian Martin joins the Super System Review Panel as part-time members. Heffron is a principal of Heffron Ltd, a firm which specialises in providing self-managed superannuation fund services. She is also a member of the Tax Office's National ...