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AIA rolls out service-focused insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
AIA Australia plans to differentiate itself from its rivals through a new suite of customer-focused insurance upgrades and more time-saving insurance tools for financial advisers. Under the group's newly launched WeCare service, AIA's existing Priority ...

SMSFs a blueprint for future super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
From Better Super to Stronger Super and now future super, the Gillard Government endorsed self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a model for retirement savings in the years to come. Speaking last night at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association ...

ASFA ushers year of e-commerce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Electronic commerce for Australia's trillion dollar superannuation industry is now firmly in the sights of ASFA 's electronic commerce policy subcommittee. Driving the strategy is Graham Sammells, chief executive of the IQ Business group, who has just ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Most key market indices were lower, but oil and copper were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0822 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,883. ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
That dreaded "I" word is making a comeback into market players' psyche. Inflation is lurking just around the corner - at least for the developed economies. In the emerging ones, they've been trying to shoo evil inflation away as if almost forever. China ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Treasury targets $18.8bn in lost super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
Draft legislation released by the Treasury on Friday has called for submissions regarding the use of tax file numbers (TFNs) on superannuation funds, a motion receiving mixed responses from the industry. The draft proposes to assign TFNs to identify ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market has opened stronger on positive leads from major world markets, and Wall Street, in particular. At 1050 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up three points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,865.7, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Global REITs to gain double-digits: INGIM

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
Total returns for global real estate investment trusts (REITs) this year could be as high as 12 per cent with dividends yielding around 4 per cent. The healthiest dividend payouts are likely to come from the US, research from fund manager INGIM shows. ...