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Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
A key part of Suncorp's merger with Promina relies on spending $395 million to integrate their information technology infrastructure in return for securing savings of $225 million within two years. Part of the challenge is Suncorp already manages a ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Super funds increasing their allocations to hedge funds and absolute strategies are not increasing their risk weightings because such strategies are really aimed at adding greater diversification. Scott MacDonald, managing director of VanMac Global ...

Financial Wisdom trumpets its Platinum Advantage

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Financial Wisdom's Platinum Advantage program has so far been a resounding success with affiliated planners and their clients. The Platinum Advantage program offers Financial Wisdom advisers and their clients access to special retail discounts and offers ...

MIAA set for a new name

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) is set to change its name to reflect the evolving nature of the industry and the different areas of financial services its members are now active in. Phil Naylor, chief executive officer of the MIAA ...

Back the winning horse, all the time

Citigroup compared it to "choosing the horse after the race has run" when it launched a product that gives investors a pick from three multi-asset portfolios but the returns of the top performing portfolio, whether the investor chose it or not. 'Optimiser ...

CommSec launches over-the-counter CFDs

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
CommSec has announced the launch of a new over-the-counter contracts for difference (CFD) product to meet the needs of investors hungry for more CFD trading opportunities. Matt Comyn, CommSec general manager, said the new CommSec CFD offering would ...

Joining a DB fund the ultimate choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The forced demise of defined benefit (DB) super because of fund consolidation and a changing workforce has unfairly cast DB funds as last century thinking. But that totally misses the point. Ann Byrne, Unisuper chief executive officer, said, "People ...

Advice in 2020

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
What will the advice industry look like in 2020? Peter Bobbin from the Argyle Partnership posed the question to a panel of high powered industry thought leaders at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) conference. Jim Minto, chief executive of ...

Build a realistic charging model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Before you can design a proper charging model for your services you have to understand very clearly the value of what it is you actually deliver to your clients. Pauline Vamos, director of her own consulting firm, said, "We find there is almost no consistency ...

Sen Chapman explains Parliamentary Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Holding his cards close to his chest, Senator Grant Chapman, Chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry, gave a few hints about the big issues confronting the Inquiry. Speaking at the Association ...