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Changes sent packing

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... said AIA Australia CEO Peter Crewe. Traditionally the two segments have been treated separately by insurers. But new dynamics in the market, including consumers' increased use of comparator websites and more advisers writing risk in superannuation - ...

Former Count CEO joins Chase

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... by regulatory reform and strong consolidation in both the funds management sector and superannuation led by industry dynamics will also serve the firm well, Gale said. Prior to Count, Gale was managing partner at Deloitte and was president of the Institute ...

WA closures signal mining boom end: Veda

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... "Given the changing nature of the SMB market and with businesses opening and closing according to very complex market dynamics, it is even more critical for businesses to continually monitor their risk exposure," said Moses Samaha, head of commercial ...

Financial Simplicity morphs into infrastructure solutions provider

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... investment administration and refocused on infrastructure solutions due to opportunities thrown up by changing market dynamics. Enda Mahoney, chief technology officer at Financial Simplicity said the company's strategy realignment is a response to renewed ...

Politicking befogs equities: AMP Capital

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... believed." Worse than the fact that destabilisation stems from global political uncertainty is the reality that political dynamics are fluid, often not logically driven and therefore cannot be adequately modelled, according to Naeimi. Earlier this week ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... 1.4% between end-May and end-July. This is a monthly series so I don't have August's numbers yet but unless the macro dynamics changes between now and the end of this month, don't expect this to suddenly turn into a 20% rally. The headlines are filled ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... what's at the other side of the hole - the Jackson Hole symposium, that is - at the end of this month. But if global dynamics stay the way they are, don't expect to see anything at the hole. Big Ben would just be repeating his reiteration of "if it becomes ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Europe, China -- the world -- last week? You betcha Virginia, there wasn't. Yet for all the continued worries over macro dynamics and rumours and innuendos coming out of Europe, speculation about China and lowered company earnings estimates, "the Street's" ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... that statements that lift confidence among investors, businesses and consumers has a role to play in cranking up the dynamics of the virtuous cycle. Confident investors invest. Confident businesses expend on structures, machines and people. Confident ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... disappointing or beating expectations -- especially when it comes to economic data - doesn't really change the underlying macro dynamics that much, does it not? For all we know, it's just all those sophisticated econometric models that got it wrong. ...