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Taggart partners with Zurich to reach home-based business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
The Taggart Group has partnered with Zurich to distribute general and life insurance products to home-based business throughout Australia via a direct distribution website. The website, called www.homebasedbusiness.com.au, is only in its early phases ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
Things are heating up in Australia and it's not just our share market and the rising value of the dollar, current greenhouse gas emissions are set to fry the climate making Australia dryer and hotter over the next 20-60 years. According to a report ...

Investors better off without legacy

Three months after the government issued a consultation paper outlining ways to rationalise more than 6,000 legacy investment products, industry body Investment and Financial Services Association has submitted its own list of recommendations. Back in ...

Seven page PDS insurance breakthrough

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Allianz has thrown down a huge challenge to the insurance industry with the launch of a direct access life insurance suite of products that not only lower costs by up to 30 per cent but come with a product disclosure statement that is only seven pages. ...

IFSA names three for industry excellence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Asteron's Gerard Kerr, Colonial First State Investment's Philip Barlin and QIC's Angela Keane have been awarded the coveted Industry Excellence awards from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). Kerr, who is head of claims at Asteron ...

Not drowning just waving

It is confession season for corporates and while the Institutional Broker's Estimate System shows a majority of analysts downgrading profits, the domestic market seems to be waving rather than drowning. A month or so out from the official company results ...

Govt push for reforms in $221.4b legacy products sector

In a move that could unshackle thousands of investors from obsolete or outdated investment products, the Government has released a consultation paper outlining ways to rationalise 6,000 legacy investment products estimated to be worth $221.4 billion. ...

Investors extending their investment edge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
Investors looking for higher and more consistent alpha are driving interest in "extension" strategies that integrate both long and short positions, following a trend already very strong in the US but now gaining ground in Australia, said State Street ...

Mile high wages club to soar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
With a tight labour market and skills shortages pumping up wages, commercial pilots look to be next to join the mile-high club in wages growth, adding to recent burgeoning national wages growth. Australia's wages are said to have grown at a record pace ...

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
It looks as though Reuters and Thomson, the second and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, are set to tie the knot in a match made in heaven. The boards of Reuters and Thomson have confirmed they are negotiating a union that will ...