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High conviction champions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... subprime credit fallout. "It's not our style to be reactive or make radical changes to our portfolio at any juncture, if anything we feel that market conditions are coming round to our way of doing things, so in the larger scheme of things we are very ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... independent financial advisers market, and we have no intention of changing that strategy. We're interested in doing anything that is going to enhance the financial planning industry, and the role of the advisor and the advice they give," he said.

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... Maybe we should instead be asking what to do with those computers and students once we get them inside the classroom. But anything that gets us intelligently discussing how to improve productivity, arguably the only economic blackhole of the previous ...

Reinventing financial planning

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... people do not wish to pay a fee direct to a planner is because they are not convinced that the 'advice' is worth much (or anything), believing it to be motivated principally by the imperative to sell a product." However, speaking at the Financial Planning ...

AIG's insurance web revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... underwriting with business flow management and administration. "Thirty per cent of call centre inquiries concern insurance and anything that improves how we can help super funds handle their insurance can lead to big efficiency improvements," said Damien ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... infiltrate legitimate websites and plant virus software that would be downloaded by internet users without clicking on anything, it just downloads as your reading the site and you would never know." According to Peter Cameron, managing director at AVG ...

JANA and InTech lead IC scoreboard

... implemented consultants in the international shares category. "That was mainly due to the strong Australian dollar more than anything else," he said. Michelle Baltazar

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... intact," Mr Morrow said. "Fortescue Metals Group is very strong, a stand out performer today. "But it's hard to pin down why anything is going up... I guess we can just sit back and be glad things are going up. "Because so many play the short side of ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... losses. "We're not seeing any large international traders coming into the market, so there is low volume trading and, if anything, we're seeing a lot of local selling, which is putting pressure on the banks and also the property trusts," Ms Roadley said. ...

Automate at ILOG speed

... explained how the local financial services market can use business rules management systems (BRMS) software to process anything from insurance policies to credit card applications and other rules or policy-intensive applications. "We're surrounded by ...