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Changes sent packing

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
The separation between group and retail insurance will influence how superannuation funds package benefits for members in the future, said AIA Australia CEO Peter Crewe. Traditionally the two segments have been treated separately by insurers. But new ...

Former Count CEO joins Chase

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Former chief executive officer and managing director of Count Financial, Andrew Gale has joined boutique M&A advisory firm Chase Corporate together with recently retired KPMG senior partner and NSW chairman Chris Jordan AO. The two appointments represent ...

Politicking befogs equities: AMP Capital

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Political forces are exerting a much greater influence in market movement, according to AMP Capital. "Investing in shares is increasingly perceived to be risky and fruitless," said Nader Naeimi, head of dynamic asset allocation at AMP Capital. "The ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
If you have something better to do today do that, rather than expending your time reading what took place in financial markets overnight. It was more of the same -- the exact same suspenseful, seemingly endless wait for policymakers to deliver what ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Looks like some in Europe's back from their holidays - there's some stirring going on from there again. Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported that the ECB plans to buy government bonds to place a cap on yields to a pre-set premium over German bunds. ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
This is because for every up move, there lies that nagging feeling that it's the calm before the storm and it's only the hope, the prayer and the wish that the Fed and the ECB and the PBOC and the BOJ and the BOE and the RBA et. al. would hand us a ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Another day, another blah to keep risk takers happy. Yes Virginia, in keeping up with our Olympics theme, it's turning out to be a blah relay. This time, Eric S. Rosengren -- president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - is running with the blah ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

MSCI risk model targets volatility

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
MSCI has released the fourth version of its Australian Equity Risk Model, designed to give Portfolio Managers better insight into risk and return. The Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4) adapts to market volatility, so that forecasts and actual results ...

SFG to close competitive gap

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
Advice group SFG plans to address structural issues in competition with a major expansion as industry dynamics change on current economic and political conditions. Chairman Eric Dodd recently expressed a desire for the Group to treble in size to the ...