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Breakspear calls for compulsory financial planning in schools

... Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Ken Breakspear has proclaimed. Speaking at the launch of Financial Planning Week in Sydney, Breakspear called on the Government to co-ordinate a uniform approach to teaching financial planning in Australian ...

No link between futures trade and AMP demerger: ASIC

... "any conduct which would warrant regulatory action" after an investigation into trading in the SPI 200 contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange. ASIC concluded its inquiries into trading in the SPI 200 based on concerns that late movements in the SPI ...

Morningstar gives Challenger a three-star mortgage rating

... Challenger Managed Investments (formerly Howard Fund Management) was acquired by Challenger Life in July 1998. Challenger's Sydney-based team managed around $2.4 billion in mortgages at March 31. Its performance has been consistently above-average, at ...

AMP Henderson appoints Cahill to product leadership team

... team. Cahill will take the role of senior investment adviser, Australian equities, under Jacqui Sullivan, the head of the Sydney-based strategy and marketing division of AMP's Australian equity products for the retail and wholesale markets. The appointment ...

Morning market wrap: Terror alert unnerves Wall St

... 4.845 per cent from 4.965% at yesterday's close. The yield on the November 2006 bond was at 4.505% from 4.595%. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June 2003 10-year bond futures contract was 95.135 from 95.025 at yesterday's close and the three-year ...

FPA launches free advice 'hotline'-for one day only

... Breakspear said. "This year, we hope even more consumers will be assisted by our group of 120 CFPs, located in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth," Breakspear added. The 'dollarsmart hotline'-toll free on 1800 626 393-is the major national event of ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries claws back some lost ground

... finished at $5.07, down $0.01 after trading in a range between $4.98 and $5.16 during the day as a stormy AGM unfolded in Sydney (see earlier story). The major banks had mixed fortunes. Commonwealth and Westpac both fell, but ANZ and National rose to ...

ASIC lifts interim stop order on Absolute Capital fund

... Commission (ASIC) has lifted the interim stop order it placed on Absolute Capital's 'Yield Strategies Fund' on Tuesday, the Sydney-based boutique announced today. "ASIC's lifting of the order means that this matter has now been dealt with," said Deon ...

AXA appoints Robertson as Financial Planning national manager

... protection products and services," said AXA's national manager of dealer groups Andrew Waddell. Robertson will be based in Sydney and take up the post from May 26. Waddell said Robertson's location in Sydney fitted in with AXA's commitment to a "decentralised ...

Trustees and managers must take active role in governance: ALP

... importance as the retirement incomes of all Australians depend upon well-managed companies," Conroy said in a speech to the Sydney Institute earlier this week. "For this reason, we believe that institutional shareholders such as super trustees and funds ...