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Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... addition, the Governing Council decided to start purchasing non-financial private sector assets." The Eurosystem will purchase a broad portfolio of simple and transparent asset-backed securities (ABSs) with underlying assets consisting of claims against ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Equity Trustees lifts profit 12%

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
Equity Trustees after tax profit rose 12% for the full year following the acquisition of ANZ Trustees. The purchase of the business, now known as Equity Trustees Wealth Services, for around $150 million in July almost doubled EQT's market capitalisation ...

Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... in more people having life insurance cover than otherwise would, as a relatively low percentage of people in Australia purchase life insurance voluntarily. In terms of the total size of insurance cover across the community, group insurance within super ...

SPAA rejects compulsory annuitisation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) "SPAA does not support policy incentives that encourage retirees to purchase one particular type of retirement income product over another," the organisation said. SPAA added that it is not in favour of ...

Select chair to become OneVue deputy CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... escrow[MS1]A period of up to 12 months. The cash component will be funded from existing cash holdings As a result of the purchase OneVue's retail funds under management and administration (FUMA) will increase from $1,940 million to $2,609 million (excludes ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
What do you do when you reach a peak? You take a breather, enjoy the view and smile (or LOL) at all the naysayers who bet, 'nay, you'll never make it'. That's exactly what Wall Street did overnight. The S&P 500 index hardly budged - up 0.01% -- to close ...

AIA Vitality available on platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
AIA Vitality program is available with Priority Protection from Platform Investors (PPPI) policies on several platforms. The program can be purchased through Asgard, HUB24, LifeFocus, Personal Choice Private, PowerWrap, Portfolio Care and netwealth. ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
"Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah, Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,...because I'm happy (Happy)." -- Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' A nice complement to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down but..." when talking about the ...