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Intrinsic finds value in Islamic investing

... faith. Intrinsic's managing director Glenn Woolley said that existing superannuation funds and many investment funds in the country do not offer products that are Shariah-compliant. "The compulsory superannuation regime forces Muslim Australians into ...

NAB completes $575m insurance sale to AXA

... position in the region and will become the second largest life insurer in Indonesia with more than 2,200 agents in the country. The move will also beef up AXA's operations in the growing Hong Kong market. ""Life insurance margins in Hong Kong are very ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
Financial markets await tonight's unveiling of the country's federal budget and tomorrow night's monetary policy deliberation by the US Federal Reserve. Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello will announce his 11th Budget tonight in Canberra where ...

AMP puts pedal to the metal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... a boutique manager. AMP, Australia's largest super funds manager with the biggest network of financial planners in the country, continues to turn in positive results and deliver on chief executive Andrew Mohl's mandate to restore the company to full ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... Following a week of controversy surrounding the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) announcement of a 25 basis point hike in the country's official cash rate, this week will give financial markets more variables to digest as the Federal Treasury delivers ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... inflation. This contrasts with last week's move by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to increase interest rates in the country where the economy is definitely running red hot. The PBOC raised its one year lending rate to 5.85 per cent - the first increase ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2006
... 16,970.29. HONG KONG - Stocks ended down more than half a per cent as concerns that China could take steps to rein in the country's fast-growing economy drove H shares to their largest single-day percentage loss in more than two months. The Hang Seng ...

Excel online or perish: KPMG

... those surveyed had online tools on life insurance, which KPMG said is a statistic that should be improved to address the country's underinsurance problems. Feyzeny noted that the choice of fund regime will compel more people to go online to check how ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

... and the US. It was started nearly 15 years ago by David Millhouse, the founding general manager of UniQuest, one of the country's key exporters of new technologies spun out of the University of Queensland. David Millhouse said that the new retail fund ...

Asgard flags plan to step ahead of competitors

... Securitor's advisers get a share of the group's overall profits as a dealer group. West also spoke about a shift in the country's demographic that financial planners need to prepare for. While much of the focus right now is on the baby boomers, he said ...