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Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
The life insurance industry continues to profit from its superannuation policies despite the spike in group insurance claims, figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show. According to APRA's Life Insurance Supplementary ...

Low rates force banks to change term deposit strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... 58,000 leaving that option, as well as 31,000 clients leaving term deposits. However, the bank compensated the losses with a spike of 375,000 new clients in bonus interest or reward accounts. ANZ also made up term deposit losses with gains in all three ...

Cbus insurance premiums jump to almost $15 a week

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... Industry fund Cbus has almost doubled its life insurance premiums, becoming the latest super fund to do so in response to a spike in claims. Following renegotiations with group insurer Hannover Life Re of Australasia, Cbus members on the default option ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... year when hints that the Federal Reserve was looking at an early exit from quantitative easing sparked a 100 basis point spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. While there are a number of approaches available on the market to mitigate against interest ...

Beware engaged baby boomers, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Increased member engagement could lead to a spike in complaints, according to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) chairperson Jocelyn Furlan. Furlan said this was a particular danger among the baby boomer generation, who have proved some of ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Despite market optimism over 'Abenomics' and widespread expectations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would eventually announce further expansion of monetary policy, Japan's stock market continues to trend lower. The Nikkei-225 index has sunk by 11.4% so ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... January high." "Yelp (YELP) has crashed -32.9 percent in just over a month". "And Twitter (TWTR), which had seen shares spike from the November IPO price of $44.50 to $73.31 (a gain of 65 percent) in a month and a half, has been beaten unmercifully for ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... this optimism. However, a dig down into the report shows that the increase in building permits was due largely to the 24.3% spike in multifamily units. The less volatile - and more interest rate sensitive - permits for single-family units declined by ...

Towers Watson sees spike in smart beta uptake

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
Asset consultant Towers Watson saw client global uptake of smart beta investment strategies more than double in 2013 to $11 billion in new investments. This compares with around $5 billion new investments the previous year. Overall, Towers Watson's ...