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ANZ eyes ING and maybe AMP

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... enough. Generally, in banking, management is not effective enough. And pick a great name - perhaps something with nineteenth century connotations. The Union Bank, for example. The number one challenge, in funds and, you never know, in banking, is coming ...

US fund fees plummet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
Fees and expenses for US mutual funds plummeted to their lowest levels in more than a quarter century in 2006, according to new research just released by the Investment Company Institute in the US. "Stock fund investors on average paid 107 basis points ...

Green light for Aviva Riskfirst roll-out

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... rule book on how the life insurance industry usually operates," Griffiths said. "Bringing life insurance into the 21st century will make it economic for advisers to make real inroads into underinsurance." More than 4,000 advisers will have access to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... market have now climbed beyond 13 per cent as the inevitable finally happened when the second largest sub-prime lender New Century Financial joined more than two dozen other sub-prime lenders that have collapsed this year.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... serious danger signs as the second largest supplier of home lending facilities to those with poor credit histories, the New Century Financial Corp, has ceased making new loans and announced that it will seek more re-financing assistance beyond the $US ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
... price gain since May 2006 and nickel and lead to their highest prices. Tin is at its highest price for a quarter of a century and gold and silver are approaching a similar milestone. Aluminium is at its highest level since about the middle of last year ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... per cent, to 2,487.74. The drop in HSBC, which is the second-largest US subprime mortgage lender, also hit shares of New Century Financial Corp, the largest lender, which fell more than 28 per cent to $US21.53, making it the biggest percentage decliner ...

UK funds earn 8.8 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... statistics manager said, "Pension funds are now moving forward, following the damaging losses of the early years of this century." Some of the better funds have even clawed back most of the losses from the earlier in the decade and are up 30 per cent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... according to the new analytic template of basing conclusions on the last decade of records a opposed to those of the last century which included many good years. The Federal government has already spent in excess of $2.5 billion in assistance to drought ...

Joining a DB fund the ultimate choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... of defined benefit (DB) super because of fund consolidation and a changing workforce has unfairly cast DB funds as last century thinking. But that totally misses the point. Ann Byrne, Unisuper chief executive officer, said, "People don't always understand ...