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Finsia opens doors to experts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
Finsia has created a mentoring program for its members to provide them with career advice and allow them to meet industry veterans. The 16-week Finsia Mentoring Program costs $600 and is only available to Finsia members across Australia and New Zealand. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... per cent. At 1211 AEDT, Rio Tinto was up $2.31 to $136.08 while predator BHP Billiton was 20 cents richer at $39.23. The major banks were all down over 1.5 per cent, with the National Australia Bank losing 67 cents, or 2.13 per cent, to $30.74, Westpac ...

UBS and Genworth tap income-for-life market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... performing markets. "Employing our 25-year asset allocation approach, our target retirement funds already address three major risks - market, shortfall and inflation - faced by investors as they prepare for retirement," said Drew Carrington, head of ...

Fresh directions for super: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... renewed discussions on issues pertaining to superannuation. The government's financial services working group will be a major platform for dialogue and ASFA will be spearheading talks on superannuation advice, governance around self-managed super funds ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... was higher at noon as investors snapped up stocks that were sold off heavily yesterday, and showed strong interest in the major miners following Rio Tinto's record underlying profit. "There's a bit of renewed enthusiasm for sold-off stocks from the previous ...

AMP posts 47pc growth in fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... per cent to $2 billion for the quarter and 90 per cent ($6.9 billion) for 2007. The Simpler Super changes also played a major role in impacting AMP's corporate superannuation flows, as mature customers led the charge in higher outflows as they delayed ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... as their interest rates approach negative territory means the Euro will begin to rival the USD for global clout. Another major trend is "the burgeoning role of oil-rich Middle Eastern countries as suppliers of capital to the world, along with the rise ...

Super gender gap narrows

Men still have double the savings in super than women but a new report shows that women are fast catching up. The Association of Superannuation Funds in Australia (ASFA) used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Income and Housing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... Walker said the market was enjoying a stronger day than yesterday. "That's largely being led by the financials, the four major banks, plus the insurers are doing well," Mr Walker said. "Suncorp and QBE are having a reasonably good day, and also there ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... energy is used by only 4 per cent of households as the primary energy source while heaters and coolers continue to be the major contributors to household energy use and costs accounting for nearly two-fifths (39 per cent) of total household energy use ...