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ETFs have proved their worth in crisis: iShares

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
As three new fixed income ETFs were launched on the ASX yesterday, iShares referred to trading patterns during the height of the GFC to demonstrate the products' liquidity and durability. iShares yesterday launched three products tracking the UBS Composite ...

Life Insurance investment revenue takes a hit

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
Investment revenue in the life insurance sector nose dived last year, with latest APRA figures putting the total at $1.63 bn compared to $11.33 bn the previous year. In its quarterly stats for the industry to the year ending 31 December 2011, the regulator ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
Australian stocks were lower at noon as weakness in the materials and metals and minerals sector dragged the broader market into the red. At 1212 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 41.3 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 4,221.7 points, while the ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
So what were all those grim headlines we read about yesterday all about? Those that went along the lines of, "we're doomed (again) because Big Ben's no longer our friend". Well, Big Ben's testimony before the US Congress continued overnight, again there ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
Seventy-one (71) Julia. Thirty-one (31) KRudd. Surprised? No. Embarrassingly entertaining? Very. But now that Team Labor has chosen, it's time to put the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah ...

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
A new report by the Centre for Independent Studies says the Future Fund, Australia's de facto sovereign wealth fund, far from being a fiscally responsible way to rebalance intergenerational equity, is economically flawed. The reasoning behind the fund ...

ANZ reaches $1.48bn in three months

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
ANZ has recorded an unaudited underlying profit of $1.48 billion for the three months to December 31 2011, calling it a solid result during a difficult global period with volatility also impacting wealth management. In the Group's results, ANZ said ...

ASIC brings criminal charges against SMSF adviser

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
A New South Wales SMSF adviser has appeared in court, charged with obtaining money by deception and of making a false or misleading statement to ASIC. The investigation into Craig Gerard Dangar relates to his time as an adviser at SMSF Consultants in ...

AXA FP advisers begin transition away from brand

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
As the AXA brand continues its withdrawal from the Australian market, AXA Financial Planning practices are being offered branding options including the offer to transition to AXA licensee, Charter Financial Planning. Under the Charter FP licence, AXA ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Whoops! Looks like I got one of my calls for the year wrong. And this is that high volatility would remain with us for most of 2012. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Volatility, instead, has gone MIA. Reports out last night should have provided the catalyst for ...