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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... the car industry saw a healthy 4.6 per cent increase in sales in November. News that US online sales rose 16 per cent on "Cyber Monday" from a year earlier, according to the Adobe 2014 Digital Index, also helped cheer markets. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... 102.75 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 17,879 points following a rise in US construction spending and encouraging auto and Cyber Monday sales data.

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
The threat of cyber-attacks is "a fact of life" and there is a need to establish an international methodology to measure the businesses' vulnerability to the risk, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said. ...

Hedge fund growth problem not helped by new products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Hedge fund managers pinning their hopes on new products to drive inflows and business growth are underestimating the costs involved as well as the effect on margins, a new report from EY has found. The global survey compared opinions from 100 hedge ...

Cyber risks for local wealth sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Growth of cyber risks has prompted insurance brokers Marsh to appoint a specialist national manager focused on the growing risk product class. The broking group has just announced that Susan Elias will join them as National Manager - Cyber, in the company's ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... half of the 1,000 firms that took part in the biennial survey reported some form of internal or external crime, including cyber attacks and theft, in the past two years compared to 47 per cent two years ago. Internal fraudsters were increasingly from ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... of the Australian federal budget 2014/15 were not the chainsaw that's been doing the rounds of the broadcast, print and cyber media over the past few weeks, it was a knife. I must give it to Tony and Joey - they're good masseurs. They endured being branded ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Looks like someone forgot to tell the stock markets that we're already halfway through May - halfway through the month that's statistically biased towards losing money. Market action over the past 24 hours shows that most have not gone away and those ...

Allianz launches cyber risk insurance product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has launched a cyber risk insurance product to counter the growing threat to security faced by Australian businesses. Allianz Cyber Protect has been launched to the Australian market to enable businesses to ...

SEC prioritises cybersecurity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... market participants to follow, reported the US news service Financial Advisor. "Small securities firms won't get a pass on cyber security rules," she said. Cybersecurity awareness has grown as an issue following US senator Jay Rockefeller, who is chair ...