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Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Ipac Asset Management plans to have as much as a 25 per cent allocation within its alternatives growth portfolio devoted to insurance-related investments, and backs the strategy with a $50 million seed investment into a newly-launched catastrophe insurance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon on Wednesday, with strong profit results driving higher share prices. But the market was weighed down by losses in BHP Billiton shares. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.6 ...

DKN prepares for big reforms ahead

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
DKN chief executive Phil Butterworth said the financial services group is well positioned to benefit from new reforms in the industry after posting a 23.4 per cent underlying profit increase to $7.64 million in the year to June. The financial services ...

Lite Super website pulled down

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
It appears that yet another no frills, low-cost online retail super product has disappeared from the market after BankWest's Lite Super product and website has been pulled down. This follows recent news of the closing down of the IOOF-owned online super ...

Infra bonds get conditional industry support

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Coalition's plan to issue infrastructure bonds that could raise $20 billion for infrastructure projects has been cautiously endorsed by Australia's largest fixed income managers. Under the plan, bonds issued to fund projects approved by Infrastructure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with equities markets generally strong and metals and oil all trading higher, too. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Had it not been for the greater than percentage point gain on Wall Street overnight, there was really nothing to write home about. Click your mouse on any financial news service and you're bound to read that good earnings announcement and better-than-expected ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... volume remained light in morning trade and industrials started pushing the market higher after 1130 AEST, IG Markets analyst Ben Potter said. "The materials space has rebounded a little bit and industrials are leading the way," he said. IG Markets analyst ...

Asgard improves custody and corporate actions capacity

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
Asgard unveiled a new online custodial shares and corporate actions solution yesterday, using its eWRAP Investment tool in an attempt to reduce paperwork and processing times for financial advisers Asgard hopes to streamline the administration of financial ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
It's official - China is now the second biggest economy in the world! Japan practically handed China the silver medal on a silver platter after releasing its National Accounts showing that the country's real GDP increased at an annualised rate of 0.4 ...