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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... share price index futures contract was down 47 points at 4,784. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases April's international trade in goods and services figures. Meanwhile, Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti is due ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... share price index futures contract was down 19 points at 4,879. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases national accounts data, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. Meanwhile, the Australian Industry ...

Board quotas an "embarrassment" for Australia: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... reporting of their diversity reporting obligations," said BlackRock. "Given the relatively poor rate of change in the statistics coupled with poor disclosure of policies, corporate Australia is open to our political leaders imposing quotas of women on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... contract was down 57 points, or 1.16 per cent, at 4,876. In local economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business indicators for the March quarter and retail trade for April. The TD Securities and Melbourne Institute inflation ...

Advisers' Twitter usage doubles in 18 months

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... Australian financial advisers has far outstripped the growth experienced in the community overall, according to new statistics from Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich). Zurich general manager of life and investments Philip Kewin said that Australian ...

No growth in managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Managed funds are still languishing according to official figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS has just released figures detailing the $2 trillion managed investments sector and they confirm that while superannuation ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... growth forecast for 2013 to 3.1 per cent from 3.4 per cent. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the March quarter, and building approvals figures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Wednesday, Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their leading indexes of economic activity. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction work done figures for the March quarter, and the Housing Industry Association publishes new home ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... a normal pattern of returns, such as that described by the bell curve diagram of probable outcomes commonly used in statistics," said Michael DePalma, AllianceBernstein's New York-based chief investment officer for quantitative investment strategies ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... FTfm, the Financial Times ' weekly funds management supplement, pointed to figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics which show that typical two-parent families have fallen from 51% of the population in 1961 to 36% in 2009. LGBT Capital is ...