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Young Australians clueless about life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has found. Overall the report found 40% of Australians had either a poor understanding or no understanding at all of their cover. The under-32 age group had poorest understanding, with more than ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... its economic operations to ensure the minimum growth rate is 7.5 per cent, the level to ensure job creation." The latest poor eco stats have now made these "anticipatory and moderate adjustments" necessary....and anticipatory and moderate adjustments ...

Gold stocks undervalued but likely to rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
Gold stocks are undervalued, but are likely to rise over the next years as Chinese demand increases and production costs lower. Van Eck Global portfolio manager of gold strategies Joe Foster predicted that gold prices could surpass the US$1,400 an ounce ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... average, typically sell losing positions before yearend, and this trend is another possible explanation for the market's poor performance during September." They're down 0.89%, 0.65% and 0.28%, respectively, over the first half of this month. So we might ...

AMP finds head of research following key departures

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... appointed a head of research and is starting to rebuild the team after the departures of several key executives. Standard & Poor's former fund services director and head of research Leanne Milton has joined AMP this week as head of research. Based in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... with $1.6104 on Monday. But it also lost ground against the euro which traded at 80.23 pence from 80.07 late on Monday. "The poor old pound is still under pressure as traders are not brave enough to go bargain-hunting just yet. The possibility of Great ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... Wall Street stocks have finished mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 10.72 points at 17,078.28 and Standard & Poor's 500 index down 1.56 points to 2,000.72. The NASDAQ Composite index closed down 0.56 points to 4,572.54. Locally, the Australian ...

Crisis deepens for van Eyk Blueprint funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
The van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Fund and van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Plus Fund are the only surviving products remaining in the Blueprint series following the decision by Macquarie to terminate a further nine portfolios that it acts as responsible ...

Senate bill challenges general advice definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) that unveiled cases of poor advice and alleged fraudulent behaviour within Commonwealth Bank's advice business and Macquarie Private Wealth.

Impartiality of FWC Expert Panel challenged again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The impartiality of the Fair Work Commission's two Expert Panels has again been challenged, with Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie calling on member Tim Harcourt to resign on the grounds that he is "biased towards the Labor Party." While Harcourt is ...