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AIG Life promotes two

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
AIG Life has promoted Damien Green to general manager of insurance and Damien Mu to head of group insurance. Mu previously worked as national client development manager at AIG Life and replaces Green who previously held the position. Meanwhile, Green ...

Super savings on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Just as new research confirms that Australians are on track for a retirement income equivalent to more than 90 per cent of average weekly earnings, concerns are growing about the damage rising inflation could have on these savings goals. AMP which has ...

Record jobless rate not feeding a wage spiral

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The lowest jobless rate in more than three decades is not producing a wage rise spiral, a report shows. Total pay rates, which include bonuses and overtime, increased by 7.5 per cent in the year to May, the Melbourne Institute quarterly wages report ...

Oil frenzy is storm before the calm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
Despite the speculative frenzy pushing the oil price to manic levels, the price is still expected to drop back in coming months. "With the surge in oil prices starting to look increasingly like a speculative mania further increases are likely in the ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has had a positive lead from Wall Street, but lower metals prices in London could prove a dampener today. At 0740 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 15 points at 5,956. In economics news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on a flat lead from Wall Street and higher commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures exchange at 0741 AEST, the June share price index was up 22 points at 5,975. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

IFM adopts UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), bringing the FUM weight to almost $400 billion for organisations that have now signed the protocols. The UN PRI includes a set of "aspirational" ...

Ex-Westpoint adviser faces charges

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Keith Rowntree, formerly from Solutions One Finance Group, faces three ASIC charges for providing advice on a range of financial products, including Westpoint, without the proper licence. ASIC alleges that between 2003 and 2005, Rowntree provided financial ...

Perpetual value in retirement : SelectingSuper

Perpetual SHARE-PLUS climbed from its 29th ranking to number one in the SelectingSuper Top 50 Australian Equities retirement fund table, proof that its conservative style of investing, which struggled in the bull run of recent years, is back in vogue. ...