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May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... stats say so. Never mind that the index of US leading indicators had been posting monthly gains over the past six months (except for an unchanged reading in November 2012) - before last month's 0.1% dip, what's more important is that this one month's ...

AIA introduces 24 hour insurance processing

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
AIA Australia has released a tool that allows financial advisers to automatically process insurance applications. The tool called Auto Complete, allows new policies to be up and running within 24 hours of submission. "For advisers, the speedier turnaround ...

Perpetual completes wrap platform overhaul

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Perpetual has announced today that the overhaul of its portfolio wrap platform is now complete with group executive Mark Smith saying he expects substantial adviser growth over the next decade. The announcement comes 18 months after the asset manager ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... next on the firing line? After having gone after the securest of secured creditors, no one would be able to sleep easy. Except perhaps the Germans who are reported to have demanded a bigger tax on deposits - 40% -- before they cough up a,-3 billion to ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Of the $10 billion worth of mandates handed out to Australian equity managers in the past 12 months, a staggering $5.97 billion has been given to just three investment houses, data from Rainmaker Information can reveal. The three fund managers, which ...

Telstra Super CEO retires

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
Telstra Super chief executive Martin Crowe announced that he will be retiring on August 30 this year after five years in the post. Crowe joined Telstra Super in 2000 as chief financial officer and became company secretary in 2003. "After 41 years in ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... weaker, dragged down by resources stocks that went ex-dividend, including mining heavyweight BHP Billiton. Every sector, except property, finished in the red as transport groups Brambles and Toll also traded ex-dividend. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Strong result for AIA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Life insurer AIA Group Limited has delivered record value of new business of $1.19 billion for the year ended 30 November 2012, across the 16 markets it operates in Asia-Pacific. "AIA Australia continues to support AIA Group's strong results and record ...