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Financial Standard launches eFinancialCareers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Financial Standard has joined forces with the specialist financial services recruitment group eFinancialCareers to launch FinancialStandard.eFinancialCareers.

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year.

BT Wrap wins myAdviser tender

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
BT has won a market-wide tendering process to secure the business of the myAdviser group through a private label arrangement for its BT Wrap platform.

QIC and eG Capital form strategic alliance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
QIC, through its Queensland Biotechnology Fund (QBF), has taken a 20 per cent position in the biotech specialist investment house eG Capital.

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
Recently re-branded financial services provider Over Fifty Group has published a paper pushing for a paradigm shift around home equity release, claiming bricks and mortar savings could plug the retirement savings gap.

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

It's not the glass ceiling. A new study has found that men are more likely to have a better lifestyle come retirement because they tend to save more and save earlier than women.

Alternatives appetite triggers Russell re-shuffle

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
Russell Investment Group has reshuffled its Australian alternative assets team and brought on board a new team member in response to the increasingly aggressive appetite of Australian superannuation funds for alternative investments.

XPLAN leads the sector with PlanTech acquisition

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
XPLAN Technology has acquired PlanTech Consulting for $15 million with the combined revenues propelling XPLAN to number one in the space.

Deutsche Bank appoints new head of equity

Deutsche Bank has appointed Ross Brown as the new head of equity research for Australia & New Zealand after Tim King decided to leave the role.

Australians clueless on super

The raft of education campaigns around superannuation are yet to make their impact on consumers after a new study found that 60 per cent of Australians don't know how much fees they pay on their super while 16 per cent couldn't name their own super fund.