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Bubble forming in dividend stocks: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Australian smaller companies, is that dividend-paying shares are subject to demand fuelled price rises rather than by improvements in company fundamentals. "The pursuit of yield has resulted in anything with a dividend greater than that available from ...

AIA Australia improves adviser quoting and app tool

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... Expanding the industry and occupation database to include the mining industry; multi-policy creation capability; improvements to security measures for credit card payments - plus the option of signatureless applications to reduce the time and paper work ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Hope of recovery in the developed world, improvements in China and Gillard rhetoric around the 'Asian century', have combined to create a golden opportunity for investment in Asia, according to Certitude's Craig Mowll. Mowll, chief executive of the ...

Bond CFDs, charting tools now on Saxo platform

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Markets has also added new charts on SaxoTrader and SaxoWebTrader with enhanced functionalities offering significant improvements to users that include the ability to place orders using the drag and drop function, the ability to select the resolution ...

ANZ to chase more China assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... improving contribution in the second half with better insurance results, higher investment earnings and productivity improvements," he continued. "We will be updating investors on the direction of this business next month." Some quarters have criticised ...

ANZ posts record profits

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... building strong domestic businesses in Australia and New Zealand, together with an increased emphasis on productivity improvements, has seen us deliver a good performance in 2012," he said. "While we have continued to invest in our strategy, the increasing ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

BT Wrap first to hit tax statement deadline

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... Australian platform to deliver all of its investors' Wrap Tax Statements for 2012. The product provider benefited from improvements to its administration system to deliver statements to more than 200,000 investors by 11 October - 10 days earlier than ...

PC hands down final default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... report into default superannuation arrangements, coming down largely in favour of the status quo but supplemented with improvements to the selection process and competition between funds. Its core recommendation is that a Fair Work Australia (FWA) panel ...

MLC revamps insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... enhancements have also been made to Income Protection, Critical Illness, Life Cover and Total & Permanent Disability. "These improvements are the latest in a series of regular upgrades we're making to MLC Insurance in order to meet the needs of customers ...