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AXA online gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
AXA's new electronic application system has been met with an optimistic response from its advisers - putting the firm a step closer to ramping up its presence in the life insurance sphere. Recently establishing "Vision 2012", a goal that aims to propel ...

AXA to invest $30m in life insurance

AXA Australia plans to invest more than double each year into its life insurance business to move from its position as a sixth rank provider to one of the top three in the sector. In previous years, AXA invested around $3 million to $5 million each ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Failing business confidence, courtesy of the US-led sub-prime credit crisis has diminished corporate appetite for listing on the main board of the ASX. According to Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) latest survey of sharemarket floats, the number of business ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Australian superannuation fund assets grew more than $125 billion last year despite a high allocation to equities in the face of falling markets, according to Watson Wyatt. The 2008 Global Pensions Assets Study surveyed the largest 11 pension markets ...

More bulls than bears

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
More than three quarters of Australian investment managers expect high corporate earnings growth in Australia, a far more optimistic view than their US and European counterparts, according to an AXA Rosenberg survey. AXA Rosenberg surveyed 196 investment ...

Super funds to hold firm despite market crisis

Against the doom and gloom predictions surrounding debt and equities markets, historical data and projections from Selecting Super suggest Australian super funds will ride the market volatility and stay in the black by year-end. Analysts and research ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Intangibles the new bottom line in company valuations

A new study by AMP Capital Investors has found that around 77 per cent of the value of a typical Australian company is made up of intangibles, a complete reversal to the proportion of tangible versus intangible assets in previous years. Speaking at ...

Houses at half price

Families priced out of the property market can avail of a new product that only requires them to stump up 50 per cent of the cost of property. St George bank and property group Australand have banded together to offer a 'co-ownership plan', a type of ...