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Clients duck for income cover

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Australians are taking out income protection in droves as uncertainty from the economic slowdown hits home. Professional Investment Services managing director Grahame Evans said figures from the latest Risk Distribution Monitor Survey showed the level ...

Gold will rally, bonds thrive: BlackRock

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... to underperform, gold prices rally and Australian bonds outperform their US counterparts - these are a few of BlackRock's top 10 market predictions for 2009. According to David Hudson, head of investment strategy and asset allocation at BlackRock, 2009 ...

RBC Dexia tops custody survey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... spot for best global custody provider in three categories, according to a recent industry survey. RBC Dexia was ranked the top provider of global custody services in the UK, Canada and the "rest of the world" category in the annual R&M Consultants Global ...

Twenty new topics for NGS Super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
The $2.65 billion NGS Super is helping members tackle financial literacy barriers with extra modules and 20 new topics added to its interactive online program. NGS Super's 'Take Control of Your Finances' program aims to help members manage money better. ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... battered. Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) survey of US private employment showed another 697,000 jobs were lost in February on top of the 614,000 jobs that disappeared in the previous month. Similarly, the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing ...

Japan wins for local instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Composite (unhedged), BT WS Japanese Share fund, Platinum Japan fund and the Barclays Japan Equity Index fund were among the top ten best performing global equity funds last year. The Perennial Japanese Shares Composite (unhedged) returned more than ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... eyeball again that nobody imagine that our equity market would end up with a loss of less than 1 per cent. For overlaid on top Wall Street's loss of 4 per cent loss (more in Europe) are news of more Australian businesses seeing staff out the door, company ...

Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Victorian and New South Wales governments collect 75 per cent of the budget for their fire services from insurance premiums. On top of high insurance premiums, the total cost for someone requesting insurance includes GST, the fire services levy and state ...

XPLAN tops planners' list

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... and transaction reporting, portfolio construction, ease of use and practice management, and client reviews. They were also top for summarising client financial status, fact finding, modeling and tax planning and risk research. "In the current economic ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... to the rescue, granting the company another US$30 billion in exchange for its non-cumulative preferred shares. This is on top of the US$150 billion the company received from US taxpayers last year. The Treasury will also exchange its existing $40 billion ...