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Insurance bodies tackle longevity risk

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
Longevity risks now feature in new insurance products as a gap in adviser 'specialist' market is highlighted. Currently one in ten people live until they are 90 years of age, which conceivably could mean they are retired and living off their savings ...

Super conference ends on a high

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Conference of Major Superannuation Funds ended yesterday with the highest attendance level of trustee directors and funds staff at the event so far, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees said. Just under 1300 delegates from the not-for-profit ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Wall Street rebounds as oil pressure dips. This is the overall theme that you'll read, hear and watch on financial services this day. It's the mirror image of the previous day's "Wall Street dips as oil pressure bounds" theme, or days when The Street ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Centric Wealth reframes advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... perspective we feel we have cracked the code on truly independent and client centric advice in this industry." "We would love to encourage others to do it this way, to share our thinking, but I don't think many will purely due to the institutional masters ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday." - Diana Ross Yesterday Wall Street dropped big time "on concern rising energy costs will threaten the economic recovery." This was Bloomberg's - and most other financial market commentators' -- interpretation ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... News. "No demonstrations at all in the streets! No, no one against us. Against me for what? Because I am not President. They love me, all my people with me, they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people." If half of the leaders of the regimes ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages." I rest my case.

Untapped potential in salary sacrifice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... employers, especially with people exercising their choice of funds, so many don't encourage it in any way. "A lot of people would love to sacrifice," she said. "People are thinking of retirement and want to put in as much as they can - and we have to ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Dip buyers are coming out on top in the current financial market stakes. Perhaps they're even secretly hoping for a repeat of that 1.8 per cent one-day drop in the S&P 500 index late last month - back when Egyptians first tried to prise Pharaoh Mubarak's ...