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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... overcoming early falls and weaker-than-expected Chinese economic data. Chinese manufacturing data showed activity contracted in March to its weakest rate in eight months, with the HSBC's preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI) falling to 48.1. It ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... largest amount in three months. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said manufacturing had rebounded in that region in March as new orders increased. And, the number of people seeking US unemployment benefits rose 5,000 last week to a seasonally-adjusted ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... decline in December. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said separately that manufacturing rebounded in that region in March as new orders increased. The number of people seeking US unemployment benefits rose 5,000 last week to a seasonally-adjusted ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... have been impacted by the timing of Chinese New Year. "If it was about disruption then the potential for a bounce back in March would quickly reverse a lot of the positioning that has gone on this week," he said. Mining companies were among the weakest ...

AFA Foundation appoints AIA exec as new chair

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... awareness for the organisation's charity partners. The previous chairperson was Esther Althaus, who took up the role in March 2013 at the same time she resigned from her role as AFA state director, Victoria. Sciarrone is head of retail at AIA Australia ...

CareSuper reshuffles board, appoints first female chair

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... Lander. The appointments are effective 5 March 2014. Wood joined the CareSuper Board in 2000 and became deputy chair in March 2012 and has previously been chief executive and director of AGEST Super, and chief executive of the government training agency ...

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... is proceeding well." The MDI is a response to extensive member engagement, he said. "After my arrival at Media Super in March 2013 I commissioned extensive research (including focus groups) into member needs and in particular the reason why some high-balance ...

ASIC drops planned MDA changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... go ahead, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced. In a consultation paper released in March last year, ASIC put forward a lengthy proposal for tightening up the regulation of MDAs. Draft regulations were due to be released ...

Advice numbers and client claims hit PIS results

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... it experienced a fall of adviser numbers in the last three years. Rainmaker figures show that PIS had 1,257 advisers in March 2011, but only 533 in September 2013. PIS claimed that during the first half of financial year 2014 "PIS has stabilised its ...

AIA pays advisers to move to hybrid commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... insurance sales to be a risk area for non-compliance where high levels of switching are apparent," the regulator said in March. "We have a concern to ensure that life insurance switching is compliant with the best interests' duty in the FoFA era."