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HESTA ready for advice boom

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The $12 billion HESTA Super fund is ready to roll out intra-fund advice to its members following the Government's new legislative changes - a result achieved through its existing financial advice infrastructure. HESTA has had its advice program in place ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... eight-week pilot program, said that he submitted an application late one afternoon and by the next day, the application was ready to complete. The system also enables planners to complete an accidental death policy in just four minutes. "The reason we ...

Berry Fin Services ready for next growth phase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... practice could ramp up its growth strategy. "We've been growing slowly but surely through referrals and word of mouth but I'm ready to step the business up a bit further and faster than that and ComCorp are able to help us with their credit union relationships," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... 100-point index. Stocks turned sharply lower as investors digested the surprising decline, which suggested consumers were not ready to open their wallets to boost the spending that drives two-thirds of US economic activity. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... surveyed 300 investors and 100 hedge fund managers representing $873 million of hedge fund assets, noted investors were ready to aggressively allocate their cash balances but will demand liquidity in the process. The surveyed investors reported holding ...

Macq opens fin planning consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... will provide a number of services from a three-hour workshop on value proposition to a 12-week program on making a firm ready to be sold. Liz McCarthy, head of Macquarie Practice Consulting, and Belinda Kerr manage the division. The cost of the service ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Wall Street paused. Wall Street is refreshed and ready for more climbing. Wall Street is back after taking a breather over the past three days, reversing some of the losses incurred since the start of the week. The S&P 500 index gained more than one ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker after Wall Street fell as a gloomy retail sales report renewed concerns about the US economy. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 86 points lower ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... imputations, high income earners worried about losing their tax breaks or retirees wanting age pension increases better get ready to hunker down for long and viscous fight. Ben Ong is on leave.

Baby boomers hang on to investments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... education and taking a more prudent investment approach in a bid to ride out the GFC, new research shows. The latest Retire Ready survey from Commonwealth Bank shows that Baby Boomers are taking a "well-balanced" approach to their investments, with up ...