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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains in oil prices and US and European sharemarkets. The March share price index futures contract was up 76 points at 5,307. On Friday, Wall Street stocks gained one per cent as oil prices rebounded ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Life insurance premiums jumped 12.9% during 2014 driven by group business, which has surged by 24%. The figures are contained in the latest analysis by insurance industry researcher Plan For Life for the 12 months to September 2014. According to the ...

Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Speculation is growing that Google will directly enter the insurance market. While its interest seems limited to automative insurance the impact of its disruptive approach is expected to impact other insurance classes. Google's interest in car insurance ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's fall of more than one per cent amid an energy stock sell-off after OPEC cut its forecast on 2015 demand for oil. At 0911 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow US and international bourses downwards to open lower after disappointing Japanese and Chinese data. At 0836 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,355. Chinese ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... to long-term we expect the Aussie dollar to go to about 94 US cents." He said interest rate increases from the RBA would push up bond yields. With Japanese and European rates still on the floor as a result of quantitative easing, Australian bond yields ...

Big changes on way for pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... countries and was commissioned by State Street and conducted in conjunction with The Economist magazine's Intelligence Unit. The push to internal asset management was reported as a major priority by 81% of pension funds is explained largely by the significant ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... said. Mr Shamu said volumes also generally started to slow at this time of year. "Overall, we just really need a catalyst to push it (the market) higher, but it's really hard to find it. Troubled broadcaster Ten Network was off one cent at 23 cents at ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... and Dr. Roubini's are correct, that US$140-150 oil would plunge the globe into another recession, demand would contract and push prices down, not up to US$300, let alone US$378." The price of Brent and WTI oil peaked two months later (May 2011) at around ...