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Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... analysed media coverage of the proposed amendments and concluded that "trade media coverage was mostly positive, with some raising issues around professionalism" and "mainstream media has been quite negative." While highlighting the "positive" and "negative" ...

Direct insurance taints consumer views on life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... illnesses until claim time, clients find out that they are not covered when it is too late." Prossor stressed the necessity of raising consumer awareness about the importance of getting life insurance through financial advice, but he added that it is ...

Brookvine inks US micro cap deal

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... Brookvine to help launch itself into the Australian market. As distribution partner, Brookvine will provide structuring, fund raising and investor relations services for the manager across Australia. THB is a micro cap specialist with over 30 years' ...

China unlikely to achieve 10% growth again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... there are structural impediments: inflation has risen, interest rates are starting to rise, profit is being squeezed by raising wages and some have taken too much debt." He said that this phenomenon "is very positive for the United States." "The upside ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... HSBC's China manufacturing sector purchasing managers index fell to 49.6, below the 50 line between growth and contraction, raising concerns about the prospects for the world's second-largest economy. The China data came amid a mixed batch of corporate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... sliding after a bigger-than-expected drop in British unemployment takes it close to the central bank's threshold to begin raising interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ended down 0.12 per cent at 6,826.33 points and Frankfurt's DAX 30 slid 0.10 ...

Japan's coming April fools' day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

"People who complain are gotten rid of": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... obligations and therefore the company did not provide the necessary information. "Senior manager response was to berate me for raising these concerns and to shout that 'ASIC didn't care about such matters and that another regulator could bother about ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... 203,000 jobs. LONDON - European stock markets posted solid gains following unexpectedly strong US jobs data, despite this raising the odds that the Federal Reserve could soon reduce its huge stimulus injections. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose ...