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Aust Unity FP in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
A restructure in Australian Unity's financial planning division has resulted to more divisional losses this year compared to 2006 despite funds under advice growing 57 per cent to $300 million. In the year to June, the group's financial planning arm ...

CBA counting on NAB and Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
National Australia Bank and Westpac may not be that likely to wind up their contract to source stockbroking services from IWL even once Commonwealth Bank takes control of the supplier of broking technology solutions. That, at least, is the view of the ...

Bravura and Perpetual develop new SOA package

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
Bravura Solutions has teamed up with Perpetual to develop a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) compliant application, Sonata Business Services. Developed with Perpetual as part of its Unit Registry consolidation project, the software will be available ...

ING revamps corporate and SME super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
ING Australia has made sweeping changes to its corporate and small to medium size enterprises (SME) super products including extended income protection cover, capped fees and a user-friendly PDS. "The changes we have implemented are focussed on simplifying ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket was deep in the red at noon with the financials taking a beating amid renewed debt market concerns. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 75.4 points to 6196 and the All Ordinaries had dropped 73 points to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... Index fell 20.52 points to 2,581.66. LONDON - UK stocks fell as embattled lender Northern Rock pulled financials deep into the red for a third session in a row. The FTSE 100 index fell 106.5 points to 6,182.8. PARIS - The CAC-40 index lost 99.55 points ...

Seven page PDS insurance breakthrough

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Allianz has thrown down a huge challenge to the insurance industry with the launch of a direct access life insurance suite of products that not only lower costs by up to 30 per cent but come with a product disclosure statement that is only seven pages. ...

Messaging transactions for 12 cents: SWIFT

In two weeks' time, fourteen of the country's leading financial institutions including BT, Barclays and JPMorgan will finish a pilot program that promises to slash messaging transaction fees from around $25 per transaction to 12 cents. Early last month ...

Core-satellite investing gets the balance right

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Index manager Vanguard Investments has urged advisers to use the core-satellite approach to boost returns and reduce the volatility of their clients' portfolios. A popular model in the US, core-satellite investing combines a 'core' portfolio of indexed ...

Carbon trading for consumers: M2

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Showing what can happen when businesses are given a viable commercial pathway for doing something about climate exchange, telecommunications group M2 has launched a consumer package that automatically buys abatements on the Australian Climate Exchange ...