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ASIC pulls up reverse mortgage award winner

An award winning reverse mortgage provider has been told by ASIC to change its advertising, after it was red flagged for misleading to consumers. Transcomm Credit Co-operative Limited (Transcomm) is Personal Investor Magazine's 2005 reverse mortgage ...

PSS and CSS boards to merge

Fund consolidation pressures apply in the public sector too, and so the trustee boards that drive Australia's two commonwealth public sector super funds, PSS and CSS, are to merge. The proposed new structure will be called the Australian Reward Investment ...

Daily economic update

The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) began its two-day meeting last night - the first meeting under the chairmanship of Ben Bernanke. There is almost a unanimous expectation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points ...

David Jones adds more financial services to shopping list

Leading department store David Jones has announced plans to expand its financial services operations, a move that reinforces its slogan that there's no other store like, well, David Jones. Chief executive officer, Mark McInnes, has said at the interim ...

Five out of six Australians lack income protection: CommInsure

A CommInsure survey released this week found that five out of six Australians have inadequate income protection insurance in the case of illness or injury. Alarmingly, the survey also showed that if the respondents were to lose their income for three ...

Advice is cheap compared to tax return fees

If Australians are comfortable spending $1 billion on lodging tax returns through tax agents, then financial adviser fees might almost seem a bargain. According to the 2002-03 Taxation Statistics Report, Australians paid $1 billion in tax agent fees ...

Daily economic update

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) voted 8-1 to keep interest rates unchanged for the seventh month in a row. The minutes of the MPC March meeting revealed that the almost unanimous decision to keep interest rates steady at 4.5 per ...

IWL and Macq to build info sharing technology

IWL's VisiPlan and Macquarie's COIN have announced they will be joining forces to create industry standard technology for communication between various platforms, planning software and advisers. The service will be provided free-of-charge to their subscribers ...

Toorak-based adviser group buys FMPG

Independently owned financial services dealer Western Pacific Financial Group (Western Pacific) has doubled its business size by acquiring Melbourne-based dealer group Financial Management Professionals Group (FMPG). Together with FMPG, the Toorak based ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

Investors are choosing margin lenders based on the lender's reputation not just on how much they charge, according to the latest survey from Investment Trends. In a comprehensive survey of over 2,900 investors, the Sydney-based research firm Investment ...