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Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... demand in China and especially India where 60% of the market resides. Latin America accounts for 15% and Africa makes up 5%, notes a new edition of the microinsurance compendium released by the Facility and the Munich Re Foundation. Asia is so central ...

ETN fears grow following price plunges

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Growing use of exotic Exchange Traded Notes is raising fears in the US, following a price crash in a popular ETN that was tracking the VIX index, that the notes are poorly understood. ETNs, as distinct to regular Exchange Traded Funds, are a form of ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... approximately 100 from the world's 230 economies. Treasury bonds make up 87% of this total, indexed and non-indexed treasury notes 6% each with 1% in other securities types, according to the Australian Office of Financial Management, the government agency ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... of the Harvard Medical School that allows members to contact panels of the world's best doctors to re-examine their case notes, introduce them to local experts and if appropriate recommend better treatments. The service, introduced into Australia in ...

ETP growth attracts IOSCO concerns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... Traded Funds (ETF) that are organised as collective investment schemes, exchange-traded commodities (ETC), exchange-traded notes (ETN), exchange-traded instruments (ETI), and exchange-traded vehicles (ETV). The paper, issued by the Technical Committee ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors sentenced

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... ACR was the fund-raising arm of the group, raising funds through a series of nine prospectuses offering unsecured deposit notes to the investing public between April 2000 and December 2006.

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... it Australia's largest institutional investor. Its impact on the funds management market is so significant that Rainmaker notes it is the largest investor into hedge funds and international property, the second largest into cash and alternatives, the ...

Fixed Income Investment course launched for planners

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... consists of 13 sessions on topics including product descriptions, mathematics and formulae, bonds, hybrids, floating rate notes, as well as a session on how fixed income works in a balanced portfolio. According to FIIG, the course came about due to the ...

Global ETP markets earn $151bn in 2011

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... BetaShares. Similar in their trading approaches, ETFs are more across the open-end investment company structure while ETPs use notes, commodity pools, partnerships, trusts, or other structures.

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... first foray into the debt market absent one A overnight was successful. Investors bought a,-1.9% billion of one-year French notes and... at a lower yield of 0.406. Sale of three and six-month French government bills also fetched lower yield. And according ...