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Advisers force life premiums down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... Levinthal. A recent joint study by the life insurer and industry information supplier Plan For Life shows that premiums have fallen consistently since 2004. Life Cover premiums from December 2004 to June 2012 were analysed across 11 leading life insurers. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.5 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 4,466.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 23.8 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 4,488.1 points. On the ASX 24, the December share price index futures contract was 19 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
The Australian stock market has fallen with broad-based declines as investors offload securities in response to a weak global economic outlook. At 1216 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.6 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 4,486.7 ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... that, "The global economy is in a dangerous new phase. Global activity has weakened and become more uneven, confidence has fallen sharply recently, and downside risks are growing" and consequently lowered its global growth forecasts. And surprise, surprise ...

Overseas investors' demand replacement of LM as RE

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... unitholders have become so embittered with LM. The Main Fund has been frozen for close to three years, the value of its units has fallen from $1 to $0.73, and 89% of the loans are in default," said Bacon. "There has been no update of the asset position ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... be dropping if not for all those jobseekers who've given up jobseeking. The civilian labour force participation rate has fallen from 65.4% when the Big O first sat on that chair in the Oval Office at the West Wing of the White House in Washington to ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... 4,494.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 41.2 points, or 0.92 per cent, to 4,513.8. NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen flat in late trade, shrugging off early gains on the back of a strong September jobs report and later data showing a ...

Don't overlook South America as an EM: MFS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Roberge. Interestingly, while the Brazil Bovespa Market Index has risen 16% in the last year, its currency (the Real) has fallen relative to the AUD a corresponding amount. Investors should consider new markets such as South America to balance what they're ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... S&P/ASX200 index was down 12.8 points, or 0.29 per cent, at 4,371.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 10.8 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 4,392.0 points. On the ASX 24, the December share price index futures contract was 13 points ...

Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... portfolio I'd be more likely to want an absolute return target than a relative target given that 10 year bonds have just fallen and provided a tail wind for equities. "We've built SAAs based on a set of circumstances that won't appear again so we know ...