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AXA ramps up million-dollar insurance strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... well received," said Rogers. AXA also announced a number of key product enhancements including changes to the payment on heart attacks, where the firm will pay a partial amount for minor heart attacks. Trauma cover has now been linked to superannuation ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... doomers ruled the roost? When headlines spun each and every Australian Labour Force report into something short of causing a heart attack? Back in March this year when most of us were fearful, the headlines read, "Job losses worst for 18 years" (AFR). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open flat to low on Thursday after US stocks finished in negative territory and commodity prices dropped overnight. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was three ...

EC's reforms could be fatal to hedgies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... that the Commission's efforts to control hedge funds and other alternative investment risks have a fundamental confusion at heart: that leverage and risk are one and the same thing. The firm argues that a highly leveraged low risk strategy could be much ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... said. Mr Bishop said the fact that market rose for a sixth trading day in a row at the open was gladden any stockbroker's heart. The major miners were stronger, with Rio Tinto up $1.40, or 2.62 per cent, at $54.80 and rival BHP Billiton up 21 cents at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... up," ABN Amro Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop. "All in all it's a satisfactory market to warm a stockbroker's heart." Rio Tinto was up $1.20, or 2.29 per cent, at $53.68 and rival BHP Billiton gained 77 cents, or 2.19 per cent, to $35.97. ...

Bigger and better risk management

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... "Get them before they get you" is the latest mantra behind risk management technology, and Progress is putting that at the heart of its Apama software to instigate faster and better risk management. Progress, which counts the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... what we witnessed over the past three days when investors' resolve are tested. Some are mere noise - to keep investors' heart beating - but some have more significant intermediate repercussions. Russia's call for a new reserve currency to replace the ...

ING battles longevity risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... the fastest growing company in its field and the fastest growing writer of annuities. Longevity is an issue close to his heart. Many of his relatives lived well into their 80s and 90s. "We have the longevity gene," he said. In a separate issue, asked ...

Go online, get results

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... 13 million online users in Australia and $24 billion spent on the web last year, it's time to make online technology the heart of your super campaign, says a marketing expert. Mike Hill, director of Holler and speaker at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing ...