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BT flags wealth "land grab"

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
BT Financial has launched a new aligned dealer brand as part of the group's broader ambition to grow by securing a larger chunk of superannuation and life insurance assets. The new brand, BT Select, is a business-to-business group targeting multi-partner ...

Direct insurance 40% of market by 2021

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Directly sold insurance will comprise 40% of the market within a decade and intermediaries need to be prepared to work with the growth channel rather than see it as a competitor. In 2010-11 it already accounted for 25% of life insurance sold in Australia ...

Falling bond yields, low growth, subdued returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Yields on Australian government 10-year bonds plummeting to record lows points to investors expecting near negligible economic growth in the foreseeable future. But it could also be driven by overseas investors desperate for a safe-haven. In April this ...

Former Ansett workers get $16m super payback

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
A decade after the collapse of Ansett, Australia's second largest airline at the time, former workers have finally been paid $16 million in super entitlements. Ten years ago the airline's 11,000 workers had their superannuation entitlements frozen after ...

MCCA up 80pct, new funds on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
Muslim Community Co-operative Australia's (MCCA) Income Fund recently surpassed $18.45 million representing 80% growth over the same period last year. The Fund is on target to deliver a very competitive second year result and performance in a particularly ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... itself creates significant investment opportunities given the National Housing Supply Council this month said in the past decade Australia has produced 230,000 too few new dwellings. This supply constraint has already pushed up home prices, fuelled by ...

EQT establishes Private Wealth division

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Equity Trustees Limited has established a Private Wealth Services division under the leadership of newly recruited executive, Geoff Rimmer. Rimmer, most recently chief executive officer of adviser group Financial Services Partners, will take responsibility ...

Volatility predicted for emerging markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... markets is sound, with many implementing a number of structural improvements in fiscal and monetary policies over the past decade to improve sovereign balance sheets, inflation rates and productivity. "These factors have been, and should continue to ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... and encouraging labour force participation among older Australians could potentially add $20 billion each to GDP within a decade. Increasing female labour force participation could add a similar GDP boost but the report's author, Grattan Institute chief ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?" Greenspan made this remark back in December 1996 in the midst of what we now know as the dotcom bubble. Based on my ...