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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket is positioned to open higher this morning, with metal prices patchy overnight and stocks gaining in the US. At 0826 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index was up 42 points to 6589. Today, the Australian ...

Margin loan changes more than marginal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Changes are afoot in margin lending with some product providers adding flexibility to their offering while others are clamping down and clipping their client's wings. "There is a fair bit of change happening in the industry and it seems to be happening ...

Aust Unity FP in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
A restructure in Australian Unity's financial planning division has resulted to more divisional losses this year compared to 2006 despite funds under advice growing 57 per cent to $300 million. In the year to June, the group's financial planning arm ...

Simpler Super needs tune-up: Zurich

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
The Federal Government's Simpler Super reforms have made positive inroads in enabling Australians to understand superannuation but further improvements are needed, according to a report by Zurich Financial Services. While the 'Simplified Superannuation ...

Bravura and Perpetual develop new SOA package

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
Bravura Solutions has teamed up with Perpetual to develop a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) compliant application, Sonata Business Services. Developed with Perpetual as part of its Unit Registry consolidation project, the software will be available ...

ING revamps corporate and SME super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
ING Australia has made sweeping changes to its corporate and small to medium size enterprises (SME) super products including extended income protection cover, capped fees and a user-friendly PDS. "The changes we have implemented are focussed on simplifying ...

Through the looking Glass Onion

Boutique web developer Glass Onion is fast gaining a name for itself after two successful projects where they gave finance websites a human face. The group has recently completed a web design for Community First Credit Union (CFCU) where CFCU clients ...

Aussie LPTs top of the pops

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
Investors who put money in Australian listed property nearly three decades ago can quietly pat themselves on the back, with Russell research showing the category outperformed all others over the last 26 years. While the traditional risk/return logic ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Good software frees advisers to advise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
The mark of good financial planning software is that it allows planners to spend more time with clients and less on administration, the Australian Financial Advisers (AFA) Future of Financial Planning Technology luncheon club heard yesterday. Modern ...