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SuperChoice ups clearinghouse challenge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... using PayClear2 can log into their account and see where the funds are at any given point - much like a freight courier company giving a 'consignment number' that allows the sender to confirm where the parcel is at any given time.

Guggenheim buys Security Benefit

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
US-based Guggenheim Partners has agreed to acquire Security Benefit, owner of Bennelong Funds Management's global equities provider, Security Global Investors. Security Benefit is the 100 per cent owner of Bennelong's global equities manager, SGI. The ...

Prison sentence for finance fraudster

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Hugh Charles Gordon, the former head of Newcastle investment company Whet Investments, was sentenced to 18 months jail, for fraud. Gordon, of Redheads, New South Wales, will be released after serving eleven months but will have to enter into a recognizance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
The Australian bourse was marginally higher at noon after a directionless morning of trade. At 1203 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.3 points, or 0.35 per cent, at 4,671.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 16.9 points, or ...

ANZ appoints Hogan as chief economist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
ANZ has appointed Warren Hogan as chief economist for Australia. Hogan joined ANZ in 2005 and has been acting chief economist since Saul Eslake left in August last year. He will report to acting managing director global markets, Rob O'Callaghan. Warren ...

Coin upgrades SoA services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Coin Software has rolled out a new Comprehensive Statement of Advice (SoA) template to help financial advisers with their admin needs. The launch was part of an upgrade for Coin Office v3.4. The Comprehensive SoA template allows advisers to provide ...

ASIC cancels Hedge Securities licence

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... operation - ASIC has cancelled Hedge Securities and Investments's Australian financial services licence after finding the company had ceased to carry on a financial services business. ASIC found that Hedge Securities and Investments was not providing ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... a strong 2008 numbers - yet new business rose 41 per cent to $150.6 million during the period. Overall, Penn said the company enters 2010 with a below-target gearing ratio of 27 per cent and $1.61 billion in assets in the books - a strong balance sheet ...

Count names new chief, profits bounce back

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... passed. It said that its accounting-based franchised network is on track to resume its long-term growth. This year, the company acquired a 5 per cent stake in financial planning group DKN. It is also the largest shareholder in Mortgage Choice (MOC) with ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Australia's biggest industry super fund for health and community services has appointed three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive ...