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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
The Australian share market slipped into negative territory by noon as falls by insurance stocks and manufacturers outweighed higher energy stocks. Profit downgrades by building materials producer Boral and mining equipment maker Bradken highlighted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... following suit. "Across the board, it's somewhat soft. The only area that's showing any strength is (insurer) QBE." QBE Insurance Group on Wednesday said it expected premiums to rise by seven per cent in 2012 after one of the worst years for catastrophic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... 25 points at 4,141, with 11,915 contracts traded. Financials gained 0.5 per cent on a spate of news from the sector. Insurance Australia Group gained after it said it had bought New Zealand's second-largest insurer for $NZ380 million ($290 million) as ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 3.2 per cent to 11,780.94. In local news on the Australian market on Thursday, Insurance Australia Group was off 11 cents at $3.04 after it estimated that claims from floods in Thailand will cost at least $50 million. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... two cents to $23.84, National Australia Bank also two cents weaker to $26.03 and Westpac one cent off to $24.31. QBE Insurance was the third-strongest performer on the ASX100, surging 60 cents, or 3.33 per cent, to $18.61 after the company reiterated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases data on international trade in goods and services for February. In equities news, QBE Insurance Group Ltd holds its annual general meeting in Sydney, the case between Seven Group and its former senior exeutive, James ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... insurers who have fallen dramatically recently have been putting in a few points today," he said on Thursday. At noon, Insurance Australia Group was the best performer on the S&P/ASX100, up 12 cents, or 3.3 per cent, at $3.76, while Suncorp Group was ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... Asset Management plans to have as much as a 25 per cent allocation within its alternatives growth portfolio devoted to insurance-related investments, and backs the strategy with a $50 million seed investment into a newly-launched catastrophe insurance ...

ING to divest insurance and investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Dutch banking and insurance giant ING plans to dispose its insurance and investment businesses over the next four years to shore up its balance sheet and repay its government debt. In a company statement released overnight, the group revealed a massive ...

APRA stresses super client burden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... indigestion within the life insurance industry," he said. "Because of the large scale and limited period of their insurance contracts, we now have an inefficient market operating, as evidenced by many of the larger life insurers not participating in ...