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Breast Cancer and Heart disease top insurance claims

... this means more than $8 million in payments are paid to breast cancer sufferers. The condition common to both sexes, heart attack is the second highest insurance claim. The average number of claims was at 13 per cent with one in two men and one in three ...

Lend Lease says Bovis covered by US govt captive insurer

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2004
Lend Lease Corp on Tuesday said it believed its construction unit Lend Lease Bovis would not be hit by compensation claims if a US class action lawsuit being brought by workers employed on the World Trade Center site in New York City was successful. ...

ALP stripping super to fund spending plans; ASFA

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has joined with the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) in attacking the Federal Labor Party's tax package and superannuation policies released on Tuesday. Too little, too ...

There's no price war, says NAB CEO

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
National Australia Bank chief executive John Stewart on Wednesday rejected suggestions that his bank had initiated a price war to win back customers. The bank, whose activities have been restrained by the prudential regulator following a rogue trading ...

Investment, broking houses put red pencil through bank stocks

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
Investment houses were putting the red pencil through banking stocks yesterday as the reverberations of last week\'s National Australia Bank profit downgrade continued to be felt. Since chief executive John Stewart stunned the market last Wednesday ...

Finance firm to launch India's first Islamic mutual fund

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2004
Indian finance firm Parsoli Corp will launch the country\'s first Islamic mutual fund, conforming with Sharia law, which prohibits earnings from interest. Ahmedabad-headquartered Parsoli Corporation will put its global mutual fund units on sale in the ...

US dollar tumbles on concerns over terrorist attacks on US soil

... Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday that intelligence indicated the al-Qaeda terrorist network is trying to carry out an attack in the US to disrupt the November presidential election. Although the department didn\'t raise the terror-alert level, investors ...

AIA continues attack on funds managers: report

The Australian Investors Association (AIA) has continued its attack on disclosure practices in the financial services industry, saying fund managers of all variety were attempting to conceal the real costs of investments made through them, Sydney's ...

FPA rejects calls for prosecution

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected criticism of it by the Australian Investors Association (AIA) which has called for the FPA to be prosecuted for false and misleading statements. In a statement released last night, the FPA said it ...

Mortgage Choice gets Mac Attack, supersizes board

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2004
Mortgage broker Mortgage Choice has supersized its board with a double serve of McTalent. The unlisted home loan company said it appointed former McDonald\'s Australia chairman Peter Ritchie as its chairman. The current deputy managing director of McDonalds ...