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RetireInvest receives facelift

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
RetireInvest is broadening its advice services in 2010 - incorporating a larger holistic advice model in addition to its traditional retirement planning services, while rebranding to RI Advice Group. Paul Campbell, chief executive of the ING-owned RetireInvest ...

Zurich launches heart awareness campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Zurich is launching a heart health awareness campaign directed at financial advisers to help clients learn about heart-related diseases risks. Men fare worse than women with this distorted perception on their health status, according to results released ...

Protection without commission: JB Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Boutique capital protection specialist JB Global Investment Services has taken the "no commission" stance to heart and axed trail and built-in commission in all its products - relying instead on performance fees to remunerate advisers. Justin Beeton ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... ($A8.37 billion). WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market ended down but recovered from its lows as Asian markets took heart from a steadier Chinese market. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed down 13.323 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 3084.68. Turnover ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... brokerage upgrade, with Isuzu Motors adding 5.4 per cent, and trading houses gained on strong metals prices. Investors took heart after the Shanghai Composite Index jumped more than three per cent after falling to its lowest close in two months on Wednesday. ...

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 ...