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Life insurance from $1 a day

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... director of direct insurances. According to a media statement from ING, the online application process takes less than 15 minutes, requires no medical tests, and if accepted the cover is immediate with the policy documents available online. EasyProtect ...

Planners flock to WriteAway

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... automates the application and underwriting process, which in some cases means financial planner clients can be covered in minutes instead of weeks. More than 30 per cent of cases are automatically accepted, according to figures from CommInsure. WriteAway ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... price index contract was up 40 points at 4,811. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November board meeting. The Melbourne Institute releases its wages report for the November quarter. National Australia ...

This swan's for Merrill Lynch

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... debut in 1995, playing 237 AFL games and kicking 56 goals. He is probably best remembered for his pack mark in the final minutes of the 2005 AFL Grand Final, which sealed the premiership win for the Swans. Barry starts his role mid-next month.

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... on Melbourne Cup Day is 100 per cent proof. And there is a one in five chance that it would double this to 50 bps. The minutes of the RBA Board meeting last 6 October provided this tip to punters. The tip? ""...members judged that...the risks in waiting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... index contract was 43 points higher at 4,852. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its October 6 monthly board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistic (ABS) releases international merchandise imports ...

Today is the International Day of Older Persons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... Statistics, a new person is added to Australia's population every 72 seconds and a person passes the age 65 years every 12 minutes. This massive demographic shift is forcing countries around the world and Australia in particular to focus on aged care ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... September share price index contract was up 46 points at 4575. In economic news, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases minutes from its September 1 board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes dwelling unit commencements for June. ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... Zealand even went so far as declaring that interest rates would remain at present levels until the second half of next year. Minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Board meeting will be released tomorrow. That should be interesting given the mounting ...

Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... likely to recover only slowly during the second half of this year, and all saw it as still vulnerable to adverse shocks." (Minutes of FOMC 11-12 August 2009 meeting). I have only one word to those thinking of taking this statement as gospel - Beware! ...