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Reinsurance talent runs dry

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
Australia's reinsurance industry is running low on job candidates, particularly analysts and actuaries, resulting in companies turning their focus offshore to other markets. While reinsurance employees are comparatively loyal to their firms, analyst ...

AIA Australia launches life product upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... responsibility to educate consumers around the need for insurance as it's still worryingly the case that many Australians feel life altering conditions will never happen to them," said Mu.

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
"In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double don't worry, be happy." - Bob Marley There's a laundry list of reports out last night that should have made financial markets wobble, yet... what we got was a strong performance ...

Another lonely night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
"Only the lonely (Dum dum dum, dummy doo wah) Know the way I feel tonight (Ooh yay, yay, yay, yeah) Only the lonely (Dum dum dum, dumdy doo wah) Know this feeling ain't right (Dum dum dum, dumdy doo wah)" - Roy Orbison It was another lonely day for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
The Australian share market at noon on Wednesday was lower, dragged back by weaker resources and financial sectors. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 25.5 points, or 0.62 per cent, lower at 4,107.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Mid-sized licensees to disappear: CoreData

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... quality service." This leaves out the middle-sized planning firms which are left in no-mans-land, said CoreData, which will feel the pressures of rising costs of running a business while also needing to maintain balance with competitors on technology ...

Strong leadership essential to face superannuation challenges

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... "knowledgeable, experienced and aptly placed for the job". "No matter how daunting, how potentially overwhelming or how pressurised you feel... there is nobody better placed to bring order out of uncertainty than you," Cosgrove told ASFA conference delegates. ...

Forum: Women driving change

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... flexible around their work practices and try to embrace females in the workplace, and help them overcome the challenges they feel they are facing." The group agreed that one of the biggest challenges for women remains balancing home and work life, with ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... the tax would be expensive. "It's a significant way to raise some needed revenue. Quite frankly, I bet nobody would even feel it," he said. Bloggers, however, were less enthusiastic saying it was another tax on Main Street to bail out Wall Street, it ...

AMP planning associations adopt insight products

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... for a post-reform environment. "As a member representative body it is essential that we connect our membership with what we feel are the highest value services to support them through this intense period of change," said Neil Whelan, chief executive ...