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CommInsure offers alternative to group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Customers of Comminsure Total Care Plan Super insurance can now pay their premiums through their superannuation fund, giving superannuants an alternative to the group cover offered by their super fund. The change also means that policy holders would ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following strong leads from Wall Street overnight. At the open on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 12.5 points, or 0.23 per cent, higher at 5,428.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up ...

Guardian and Asteron help launch pro bono adviser service

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Guardian Advice and Asteron Life have joined together with a network of financial advisers to launch Claims Aid, a service to provide pro-bono claims assistance on life and disability policies. Peter Kaleta, a principal adviser at Life Shield and founder ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open higher, with solid gains on Wall Street overnight. The December share price index futures contract is up 30 points at 5,432. The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh records on continued momentum from Wednesday's ...

360 Capital hires BDM from Zurich

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
Listed real estate fund manager 360 Capital Group has appointed a new head of business development. With over 18 years of industry experience, Matt Aspinall was most recently part of business development and research with Zurich and previously at Blackrock ...

CEO pay at lowest level in decade

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
Chief executive pay is at its lowest level in a decade, according to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. At an average $4.84 million, the chief executives of ASX 100 companies make 63 times as much money as the average ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
It's Fed day today and I couldn't decide whether to begin this space with Dan Hartman's "Instant Replay" or Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same". Yes, yes, yes... both of 'em show how ancient me is but... both of 'em are also apropos to what the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open higher, with modest gains on Wall Street overnight. The December share price index futures contract is up three points at 5,404. The Dow closed at a fresh record after the US Federal Reserve stuck to a plan ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
Li gets what Li likes. Yes Virginia, I've typed this phrase so many, many, many times -- changed from 'Wen gets what Wen wants when Wen wants it' when Li Kequiang took over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. ...