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New mortgage platform to offer top commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... listing of the business." But Mitton explained this new arrangement is not quite what it seems. "Brokers normally earn nothing when an aggregation or franchise group is sold to another financial institution while the business owners become millionaires. ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... slightly to US$1.24 at the close of trade in the United States -- up 0.04 per cent from the previous day's close. Still nothing to write home about! How did it come to this? It's Greece. It's Portugal. It's Spain. It's all those profligate spending Eurozone ...

Hyperion Aus Growth Companies eyes ASX300

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... the change in the fund's composition simply meant that all the stocks outside the ASX300 were taken out. "This involved nothing more than removing four micro cap (ex 300) stocks from the fund and re-weighting the remaining stocks." The Hyperion Australian ...

Do nothing budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... And contagion? Yes, there's still China. But cracks are beginning to appear there too. The major positive of this "do-nothing" budget is that the Australian government would be in a better position to do "something" should things take a turn for the ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... This is but a snippet of what could happen when machines are given a life of their own. Emotion, sentiment, bad vibes had nothing to do with last night's market mayhem. It's fat boy with his fat finger and his machine. One thing this panic episode highlights ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... and that the Abacus deal involved sophisticated investors who should be held accountable for their own bad decisions. Nothing wrong with that, he is entitled to his own opinion. But something's wrong when you know that his investment firm -- Berkshire ...

Commissions by another name

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... advisers where the investor has agreed to deductions from the investment to cover the cost of advice. Such payments are nothing more than commission by another name." Hartsuyker's comments directly challenge the policy shift by financial advice and retail ...

Trust is a hard currency: research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... best job they can do to sustain their brand is to communicate as much as they can," said Wells. "We believe that saying nothing is really saying 'something' - the worse thing they can do is to be completely quiet on it." That said, Wells acknowledged ...

Planner fees for super advice cost $1.3bn

ISN PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... said proposals by financial planners and retail funds to replace commissions with ongoing percentage-based fees would do nothing to reduce the fees paid by consumers or address conflicts of interest. He argued that models proposed by retail funds (where ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... Act is built. Michael Vrisakis, partner at Freehills lawyers and long time superannuation legal expert said, "There's nothing in the legislation currently that would deal with that kind of scenario of asking funds to shut down. So you'd have to be looking ...