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AIA tackles spike in mental illness-related claims

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... Australia has launched a paper exploring ways of getting employees suffering from mental illness back into work, after a spike in total and permanent disability (TPD) claims has put serious pressure on the life insurance industry. The paper was produced ...

Strong US recovery to send bond yields through the roof

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... scenario the market would lose faith in the Fed's ability to exit quantitative easing causing yields on 10-year Treasuries to spike to 8-10% and big falls in asset prices." "The stronger the US economy become, the greater the risk of this scenario." ...

Brokers tip stocks ahead of public announcement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
Some brokers may be 'tipping' off privileged clients, after market data has revealed abnormal trading volumes prior to public release of analyst recommendations on associated stocks, according to a study by independent academic researcher Capital Markets ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
What the...? Wall Streeters must have smoked or drank some heavy stuff ahead of America's 4th of July holiday celebrations. All three of America's benchmark equity indices - the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - closed higher while most other equity ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... support" if needed after a shortage of money in credit markets caused interest that banks pay to borrow from each other to spike last week. The bank also said it already had provided money to some institutions but gave no details. IG market strategist ...

PGI updates fixed income fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Principal Global Investors (PGI) is looking at the next generation of fixed income products and has adapted its Global Credit Opportunities Fund to make it more flexible for Australian investors. "Investors are rotating out of a more traditional type ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... from this year's low of 11.05 (March), but this is way, way lower than the near 90 reading back in October 2008 or even the spike to a 48 something reading during the European sovereign debt crisis induced fear moment in August of 2011. There'll be more ...

Empty orchestra

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... The time when Japan's Economy minister Akira Amari told Reuters that, "If the yen excessively weakens, this would cause a spike in import prices... and while "it would be a benefit for exports, but would have harmful effects on people's livelihoods"? ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... meetings". There's the yen rebound and lower-than-expected China manufacturing PMI - not good for exports. There was the spike in 10-year JGB yields following BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's 'revelation' to expect bond yields to rise as the economy improved ...

Instos take on risk monitoring tools

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... becoming much more tolerant of risk, said Hamilton. "Events that used to trigger significant volatility now hardly cause a spike. It suggests that either, investors have already decided to wait out the market, or that they are just much more tolerant ...