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Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... meetings". The shift to fees for services and how these are overtaking commissions will accentuate this strategic shift. "Undoubtedly the financial and insurance services industry division will continue to be a huge consumer of ICT services for a long ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... wide range of indicators suggests that the job market has been improving, which is a welcome development indeed," undoubtedly helped by the Fed's cheap and easy money policies. The Fed has kept interest rates at 0-0.25% since December 2008, bought around ...

AXA IM to expand responsible investment focus

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... But he warned that Australian institutional investors faced a raft of new corporate governance challenges in Asia. "Undoubtedly Asia represents a unique investment opportunity, but global investors should abandon the box-ticking approach based on the ...

FOFA will pass: Shorten, FPA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... rescinding the legislation if it moves into power, De Gori said that while that is a possibility, that action would undoubtedly be lower on the list of priorities for a new Government which has promised to rescind a number of major bills. In his address ...

Super industry reviews carbon tax impact

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... fund members and managed scheme investors, said it was too early to tell the precise impact on members. "There will undoubtedly be impacts, with both opportunities and threats developing for different sectors and companies," he said. Richards said MLC ...

Advisers and super key to underinsurance: AFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... if Australians are underinsured because they are deterred by the remuneration set up, Klipin said that while it was undoubtedly a factor for some, it was the attitude to insurance that was a higher concern. "This research identifies that it [commissions] ...

Equiti to launch US multifamily property fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... heard some reports of investors paying $30,000 for properties they have never seen," he said. However, the asset class undoubtedly has potential that Equiti Capital hopes to exploit. "Multifamily housing is an institutionally-run investment asset class ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... 410,000 reading and the lowest since July 2008. Hey, that was before Lehman folded! Sure this is a volatile stat and undoubtedly, like the non-farm payrolls report - snow affected. But the report also showed that continuing claims continued their 2-year ...

The changing face of super: State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... according to State Street. The latest State Street Vision Focus report predicted Australia's superannuation sector to "undoubtedly become an even more significant force in the economy" over the next two decades, buoyed by compulsory contributions. And ...

ASIC tightens noose on managed inv schemes

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... sure that the increased capital adequacy requirements will provide consumers with any greater protection," he said. "Undoubtedly investors in MISs will have to bear the cost of the changes without necessarily receiving any greater expertise or skill ...