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Saving for the kids' textbooks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... cent of the previous year while retaining the same 10-year tax advantages from the original date of investment. David Kan, ING Australia executive director for personal investments, uses the example of the firm's tax effective investment bond as an alternative ...

Boot camp for ING sales staff

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
ING Australia has launched a new training program to identify, train, and develop aspiring sales staff in an effort to grow the company's product awareness among consumers. The Business Development Associate (BDA) program will be implemented across ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... reverberating around global markets, several world wide sentiment surveys show that investor remain surprisingly upbeat. The quarterly ING Investor Sentiment Index shows that confidence level among Asian investors has dropped in the fourth quarter of ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... experienced its largest fall since the September 11 2001. With the days of easy credit all but over, Martin van Vliet, economist at ING Bank in Amsterdam expects European banks to make it harder for companies and consumers to get loans over the next ...

SMSFs keep portfolios unchanged

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... market turmoil, SMSFs are staying put, according to SMSF professionals. Graeme Colley, superannuation strategy manager at ING, said, "The asset allocations might move four or five points and that might mean a greater weight of investment points over ...

Austock High Yield gets three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... quarter strategy to increase liquidity and shorten the maturity of the portfolio, selling Timbercorp Convertible Notes and ING Real Estate Entertainment Property Trust. Doyle Mallett, portfolio manager at Austock High Yield Fund, said the funds team ...

Macq wrap adds 12 more funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... superannuation/pension manager menus. Other new funds include the Goldman Sachs JBWere Core Plus Australian Fixed Income Fund, ING Select Leaders Trust, and the MQ Terms Plus Product.

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...

Avanteos starts year with rebate resolutions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Leading fund managers including ING, Colonial First State and Perpetual, and individual investors are set to benefit from new rebate and reporting initiatives from Commonwealth Bank owned platform, Avanteos. According to Chris Stevens, chief executive ...

ING PEAL pledges $10m to Wolseley

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
ING Private Equity Access Limited (ING PEAL) has committed $10 million to Wolseley Partners' next private equity fund, which is aimed at the mid-sized deal space of the sector. ING PEAL will be lending its financial backing to the Wolseley Partners ...