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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat following weak overseas leads from the US. Gains in heavyweight Australian mining stocks have been offset by falls in Telstra - which has gone ex-dividend - and fellow large companies Woodside Petroleum and ...

AustralianUnity profits fall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Australian Unity's profits for the first half of the financial year have plunged by almost half compared to last year's half-year results. In its interim results for the 2013-2014 financial year, Australian Unity recorded profits of 6.1%, compare with ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat following weak overseas leads from the US. Gains in heavyweight Australian mining stocks have been offset by falls in Telstra - which has gone ex-dividend - and fellow large companies Woodside Petroleum and ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has called for superannuation to be taken out of the modern awards system, a move it believes would improve competition among super funds and ultimately benefit members. In its submission to the government discussion ...

Challenger reports record annuities sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
Challenger has reported "exceptionally strong" retail annuities sales in the half year up to December, rising by a record 38% to $1.46 billion. Overall Challenger's retail and institutional sales reached $1.75 billion. In the retail space, 19% of annuities ...

Acorn appoints former Citi portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Acorn Capital has appointed Ben Dalling as a sector portfolio manager/analyst to the Australian microcaps team. Dalling, who will be responsible for the financials, REITs and industrials - capital goods sectors, joins the company from Citi where he ...

FEATURE: The cost of cash

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Little more than two years ago, you wouldn't have to look very hard to find a 12-month term deposit paying you around 6%. But the hangover from the wildest commodity-fuelled party in Australia's history had to catch up eventually. Since then, the Reserve ...

Matrix to focus on attracting aligned advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Matrix Financial Solutions will be focusing on strategies to attract advisers from aligned dealer groups after the resignation of its managing director Rick Di Cristoforo. "There are opportunities now that didn't exist five years ago, and this will ...

PROFILE: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
A career in the public and private sector has set the Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos in good stead for his challenge to change the financial services sector. Alice Uribe reports. By his own admission, politics was not always on the cards for Senator ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Group insurance risk management will be top of the agenda in a number of thematic reviews to be carried out by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), according to the regulator's general manager Greg Brunner. Speaking at the Australian ...