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Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
From iPads to the BlackBerry Playbook, global shipments of portable internet devices based on "lite" operating systems will hit 150 million per year in four years - making it more important than ever that advisers get on board the tech revolution. New ...

Transition mgmt takes centre stage

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... also in discussions over a tie-up. But mergers also bring a whole set of administrative and operational headaches to the table, and on the investment front, it gets even more complex. Asset consultants will end up deciding the fate of many mandates. ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
The New Zealand Retirement Commissioner has recommended an increase in the country's retirement age to 67 but the proposal has been rejected by Prime Minister John Key. The recommendation was made in the three-yearly Retirement Income Policy Review ...

Super fund recovery 6pc but big funds fail to fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Super fund returns for the year to October have recovered to an average 6.6 per cent but it's the small funds and not the majors leading the way. SelectingSuper's latest performance survey found funds have recovered half of what they lost, since at ...

Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Australia's recovering commercial property market fuelling the bounce back in the direct property sector, combined with share returns turning south, has dented the retail super surge and put industry funds back in the market lead. CB Richard Ellis has ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... China continued to grow. Amen! And across the troubled waters of the Atlantic, Ireland may have been dragged to the begging table screaming and shouting, but forced to take its medicine it was. Admitting there's a problem is the first step to a cure. ...

Tower unveils iQuote app

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Tower has launched the Accelerated iQuote life insurance app for the iPhone and iPad - giving advisers the opportunity to roll out instant life insurance quotes on the go. Brett Clark, chief executive of TOWER Australia Retail Life, said Accelerated ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... the bond markets, buys out outstanding US mortgages or pays for the wages of additional hires among US firms? According to Table 1155 of the US Census Bureau's " The 2010 Statistical Abstract", US total mortgage outstanding was US$14.6 trillion at the ...

Bank planners more trusted than family: survey

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... banks for advice ahead of their family. Banks and their employees such as financial advisers ranked second on the trust table in a new Datamonitor "Key Consumer Trends for Insurance Providers in 2010" survey of 3,900 Australians. For instance, investors ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... time when the advice industry is on the cusp of major reforms. "We are in a battle ground. But, we are at the negotiating table and that's going to be the source of achievement. We're not going to win every battle, but we're going to win the important ...