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Competition for annuities likely to remain low

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Challenger, rather than to compete with the annuities provider, with Commonwealth Bank (CBA) signing a distribution agreement in October 2014. "While the non-bank life insurers do pose a competitive threat to CGF, it is difficult to see these players ...

Trowbridge releases final report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... following the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) retail life insurance research - originally released in October 2014. It contains 11 recommendations, six of which are policy-oriented. The other five concern implementation and a ...

Out with the old in with the newer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... March from 55.1 in the previous month - well beyond the 50 expansion/contraction threshold and the best reading since October 2014. Also good, new orders were at their fastest rate of increase in five months and job creation in the manufacturing sector ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... is bogged down by increased political uncertainty (corruption scandal) - despite President Dilma Rousseff's winning the October 2014 run-off elections for a second presidential term - falling commodity prices and the Brazilian real. Prices of its biggest ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... years (2003) and represents a 7.6% climb this year to date, a 21% jump a month before the completion of the Fed taper in October last year and a 35.7% surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit rating in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... 1,992.82. Tokyo fell 0.95 per cent, or 180.45 points, to end at 18,790.55, after the government downgraded growth for the October-December period to 0.4 per cent, from 0.6 per cent. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 6.105 points, or 0.1 per cent, to ...

Millionaire investors swell in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... millionaires over 2014 and the high net worth (HNW) investor population went from 400,000 in November 2013 to 443,500 in October 2014, the Investment Trends HNW Investor Report found. "This is the largest annual increase in the number of HNW investors ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... expected. At 0815 AEDT on Monday, the share price index futures contract was up four points at 5,918. US growth in the October-December quarter was revised to 2.2 per cent from the initial estimate of 2.6 per cent. Markets had expected a sharper cut ...

ClearView surpasses 200 adviser milestone after merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... ClearView reported having 216 financial advisers under its license, following the merger with Matrix Planning Solutions in October. ClearView's net profit after tax was $9.9 million for the six months to December 2014, which represents a 9% growth from ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's 1,926 word ...