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Challenger gets Lonsec approval on annuities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... annuities and lifetime income product are starting to represent a dominant figure of Challenger's sales. Challenger's half year results released last February showed that sales in annuities products increased by 55 per cent to $1.98 billion compared ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... major economic or company news is expected on Monday. The market on Friday closed higher, remaining near four-and-a-half year highs. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 14.2 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 5,123.4 points, and the All Ordinaries index gained ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
Australian shares remain near four-and-a-half year highs, pushed up by a fifth straight day of gains on Wall Street. The market has opened about 0.1 per cent higher, with mining stocks the best performers in early trade. CMC Markets chief strategist ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher, continuing that gains that reached a four-and-a-half year high and as the Dow Jones extends its record-breaking run. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up six points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
The Australian market was hovering around four-and-a-half year highs at open after Wall Street soared to a record high. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 hit 5,119.8 shortly after open, before falling slightly. It is the highest level the market has reached ...

Debt free and dividend rich: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... the company wrap up its two-year long system upgrade and acquisitions. This morning the listed company released its half year results, focusing investor attention on its debt-free balance sheet and proposed dividends per share of 3.4 cents per share ...

Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... Clean Seas Tuna. He knew that the company had suffered a financial loss of more than $10 million in the December 2009 half year period with the loss to be announced on February 26 2010, the same day that he placed the order to sell the shares. He also ...

Annuities boost Challenger growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... said. The 'tenor' of new retail annuity sales has also lengthened as it went from 5.4 years in 2012 to 6.2 years this half year. Also, three years ago, the average tenor of new sales was 4.2 years. "Improving the mix of new sales to favour longer-tenor ...

Super assets up 15% to $1.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Super funds have staged a massive bounceback, reclaiming $192 billion to post the fastest annual asset growth in two-and-a-half years to reach $1.508 trillion. Driving the growth in the APRA reported figures is the 12% average return, according to SelectingSuper ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... $28.92, and NAB gained 26 cents to $29.61. Also making news, salmon farmer Tassal Group reported a 22.1 per cent jump in half year net profit to $15.83 million. Its shares rose five cents to $1.765. Mr Rosewell said with volumes low across the market ...