Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1421 - 1430 of 1551 results for "Competition"

Competition among insurers to drive down profits and premiums

While the general insurance industry has enjoyed record profits in 2005, tougher competition and lower premium rates could mean returns in 2006 won't be as good, according to a recent survey. The JPMorgan Deloitte 2005 General Insurance Industry Survey ...

AvSuper looks for perennial returns

... typical "growth trap" of overpaying for blue-sky expectations," "Investors generally underestimate the increase in competition and supply as a business and industry mature. Perhaps unusual for a "growth" manager, but what we are trying to do is determine ...

TOWER is NZ FundSource manager of the year

... Investments in NZ, said winning the award two years running is a significant achievement given the competitive nature of the competition. "The award is testament to how TOWER's people, processes and performance all combine to deliver real value, and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2005
... weighed on the Dow. Shares of major drug companies, including Pfizer and Merck, declined as the sector faces generic competition and legal concerns about key medicines. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 65.88 points to 10,215.22. The Standard & Poor's ...

Macquarie Wrap tops $16 billion

... service. But the average $500 million win per month that Macquarie has achieved shows that it is not letting up on the competition. This year, it won second place in ASSIRT Service's Best Master or Wrap category.

ASFA launches simply super competition

The Association of Super Funds of Australia (ASFA) has launched its competition to unearth a simpler superannuation system for Australia. The competition, which is open to anyone, carries a prize of $10,000 to be awarded by a panel of industry experts. ...

Funds management industry set for generational change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2005
... the influence of economic superpowers China and India, the energy crisis, political instability, globalisation and competition. But he says demographic change is a major challenge with the over 60 sector or as some have coined - the SKI generation (Spending ...

US online broker taps into local options market

... will be about 20 per cent cheaper and for stock trades our commission will be about 10 - 15 per cent cheaper than our competition in Australia.

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2005
... September share price index contract was eight points firmer at 4290 on a volume of 1,122 contracts. Today Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel speaks in Sydney.

…as Minchin denies union funds attack

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2005
... that Australians shouldn't have choice as to where their superannuation funds go. What you're seeing now is healthy competition developing between the funds to attract Australians to their funds," Minchin says. He denied the motivation was to attack ...