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Aviva launches first in range of new funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... investment strategies depending on how much each strategy contributes to fund risk. Fund managers can invest as much or little as they want across asset classes and geographies. Aviva Investors chief executive, Euan Munro, said investors want simple ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... My Dealer Services business manager Alex Euvrard said: "We have found that an adviser's business model that deviates a little bit from the vanilla offering has resulted in a significant increase in those PI premiums. "So if there is a little bit of something ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... over the coming 12 months, which was up significantly from 37% in the prior year," he said. "Australian investors were a little less bullish in terms of percentages. The amount of people interested increasing in equities was only 39%." Schiffman was ...

PROFILE: Findex chief executive Spiro Paule

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... our process. We were probably one of the earliest to digitise our process in 1994 by mapping all of the processes of our little business," Paule says. The company started collating everything- from how you turn and unlock the door and turning on the ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
In three days time, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will again meet to talk about monetary policy. Chances are there's little chance of a change in policy settings. The BOJ board would decide to keep settings as they did at the 7-8 April gabfest -- key interest ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... in 50 years." Miller said there is not much help coming from other sectors and even consumer spending data was still a little bit below trend. He also believes contributions from the public sector to growth will be limited and the federal government ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

$1m in super not enough: Cooper

MARK SMITH AND AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Superannuation expert Jeremy Cooper has said that a super balance of $1 million would buy an income stream little greater than the age pension. The chairman of retirement income at Challenger, says a million dollars is always seen as a nice round figure ...

Life insurance risk inflows reach $14.2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... million); MetLife (10.1% to 541.8 million); and OnePath (9.7% to $1.4 billion). Plan For Life said new premium sales were little changed year on year, down by 1.8%, however AIA (57.5%), Zurich (17.2%), OnePath (7%), AMP (6.6%) and BT/Westpac (5.2%) all ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... "There's probably some general market jitters on the back of the Greece situation," he said. "It's the entire market that's a little bit jittery." BHP Billiton was down 26 cents at $29.97, Rio Tinto was down 86 cents at $55.01 and Fortescue Metals had ...