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Bank branches finally start to sell wealth product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
After years of trying, bank branches are finally starting to successfully sell wealth management products and improve their cross-sell rates. Westpac reported that the number of bank-originated home loan customers taking out home and contents insurance ...

Grange announces new chairman and directors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... to the board of its Melbourne funds management business Grange Asset Management. Current deputy chairman of Australian Wealth Management and board member of Australian Reward Investment Alliance, Graham Rogers, has been appointed chairman, succeeding ...

Mercer appoints new financial advice leader

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Mercer Wealth Solutions has announced the appointment of former Citigroup executive Scott Walters as Australian financial advice leader. Walters will be responsible for developing Mercer's well-established employed face-to-face and phone-based financial ...

Economic round-up: Bank fee jump is our fault, not theirs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... per cent down to 0.6 per cent in the last six years as they change their product mix to off-balance sheet activities like wealth management, which of course means riding the wave of money pouring into superannuation and providing all the ancillary services ...

Microfinance bonds attract major instos

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... noted in their paper. The high repayment rates among borrowers have allowed the microfinance sector to expand into other wealth management products. "MFIs also now provide other financial products and services, such as insurance and deposits, as well ...

World first index monetises climate change risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... technologies," Mr Grossman said. "The RepuTex Clean Tech Index will identify companies that are best placed to compete and create wealth by reducing the global carbon footprint with specific products and services," he said. The RepuTex Group is chaired ...

Centric to improve the health of doctors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... professionals, doctors fail to adequately plan for their retirement despite their healthy incomes, a condition Centric Wealth is planning to remedy. Paul Cooke, a Centric adviser who specialises in offering advice to doctors and medical practitioners ...

Bumper year for wealth managers

... report by consulting firm KPMG has confirmed that the country's major banks enjoyed another record year in profits, with wealth management still the crowning jewel. According to KMPG's half year results performance survey, operating profits in the wealth ...

Super choice Budget boost

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
Wealth managers usually complain that Governments change the rules too often and how they should leave the industry alone for a while, and yet after last night's Budget they are complaining there weren't enough changes. Given the industry is still digesting ...

Elite investing strategies ready for download

It's not available in Australia just yet but in the US, a new research company is offering mum-and-dad investors and financial planners access to data that reveals the investment secrets of high net worth investors. Robert Huebscher, the founder of ...