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Aussies finally get life insurance message: IFSA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Life and wealth protection sales grew by nearly 16 per cent in the 12 months to December 2006, according to new figures released yesterday by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). The sales increase comes after a major study by TNS ...

Good thing bananas don't pay rent

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
If bananas becoming luxury goods were a key driver of the 0.1 per cent lift in inflation, then escalating rents could be the next black cloud on our inflation horizon. The problem is increasing rents, which experienced their biggest quarterly rise in ...

Inflation up but lower than expected

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
The producer price index - effectively the wholesale inflation rate - remained unchanged in the first quarter at an annual rate of 2.8 per cent, lower than market expectations of a 0.6 per cent rise for the quarter, leaving the annual rate losing pace ...

Barclays to buy ABN AMRO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
Barclays has agreed to purchase rival ABN AMRO in a US$91 billion deal, creating the world's largest asset manager and the eighth largest wealth manager, with 47 million customers. However, reports emerged yesterday of a possible rival bid from the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
The Australian Bureau of Statistics today releases highly anticipated Consumer Price Index data, which the market will look to for an indication of future monetary policy and a direction on official interest rates. In company news, Caltex today hosts ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Inflation figures out tomorrow will be a telling predictor into the RBA's decision on domestic interest rates next week. Many economists are already tipping that, with further deterioration in import prices set to push down headline inflation over months ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

An asset allocation expert from leading index manager Vanguard has put forward the case for a portfolio construction model that invests around 40 per cent in active strategies. In a whistlestop visit to Australia, Nelson Wicas, a US based principal ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Flying in the face of a 4.5 per cent jobless rate, strong currency and figures showing 5.5 per cent of household finances have improved in the last month, interest rate uncertainty may account for the latest figures in consumer confidence dipping to ...

Avanteos loses $7 billion Goldman Sachs mandate

Colonial First State (CFS) has lost a $7.1 billion Goldman Sachs JBWere mandate from its Avanteos platform, according to the CBA's third quarter trading update that was released yesterday. CFS advise the mandate represented only 4 per cent of the stated ...

Overseas investors target Aussie super fund cash flows

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
Large numbers of overseas investment managers are targeting Australian super funds as they look to profit from the huge cash flows on offer, according to deputy managing director of Frontier Investment Consulting, Kristian Fok. Fok said that the Australian ...