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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... particularly well last night," he said. The falls came after the European Union revised downward eurozone growth and employment forecasts. It said growth would amount to 1.1 per cent next year, down from the 1.2 per cent it forecast in May, and unemployment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street and most European bourses after eurozone employment figures failed to impress. At 0824 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up three points at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... were waiting for key economic news due out of the US in the next 24 hours, including the release of a private sector employment report and the end of the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Markets will be watching the FOMC statement ...

Westpac and BT launch SIV service

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... Asia. The bank has partnered with migration agencies in Asia to help migrants' access to business partners, relocation, employment, schooling and medical services. SIV customers have access to a private banker and to BT's Global Investment Team private ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... objective, the pace of asset purchases could be reduced somewhat more quickly. On the other hand, if the outlook for employment were to become relatively less favorable, if inflation did not appear to be moving back toward 2 percent, or if financial ...

TPD insurance prices up 10%

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... rates, price compression through intense competition and product definitions that have failed to adapt to social and employment trends, noted the study. The report is based on the annual Rice Warner survey of superannuation funds' insurance products ...

Women's retirement anxiety is increasing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... highlights a key failing in the Australian superannuation system: it is explicitly designed for people in consistent paid employment, a feature which clearly prejudices many women.

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... continues through late October, claims processing for compensation, pension, education, vocational rehabilitation, and employment benefits will be suspended due to lack of funding. "If the shutdown continues into late October, November compensation payments ...

BT launches women adviser network group

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... planners in Australia. "We need to strengthen the understanding of financial planning as a career and work to develop the employment support that is right for women," BT Financial Group general manager of Advice Mark Spiers said. "Australia will see ...

Friday the 13th spook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013