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Super outstrips other channels in disability risk profits

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... income insurance within superannuation is outstripping comparable insurance products sold directly. The latest quarterly statistics from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show that both the super and traditional channels are struggling ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... services as well as indirect taxes. The base year has been shifted to 2011/12 from 2004/05 earlier." "The government's statistics department says the new method is more in line with global practices and gives a better picture of economic activity." So ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Stevens is speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia Financial Cooperation Conference in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release international trade price indexes for June quarter and building approvals numbers for June. In company news, Sunbeam ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... about how things in the economy are tracking relative to policy objectives". Yes Virginia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at an Anika Foundation event in Sydney. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release the June quarter consumer price index while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic ...

Annuities to become more competitive

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... whether Australians will increase their interest in annuities as part of their retirement plan. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows 1% of retirees taking full or partial lump sums were then purchasing an annuity. Commonwealth Bank general manager ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,387. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases May's housing finance data. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday rebounded from ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... price index futures contract was down 31 points at 5,370. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June's labour force data. No major equities news is expected, but Telstra's chief executive Andrew Penn will deliver ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... nothing else you and I and Irene could do but sit and wait. And by George, thank goodness that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) decided to publish the US Non-farm payrolls report a day early so our yankee doodle brethren can celebrate their Independence ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... May and cut the estimates for job growth in April and May. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases May's retail trade figures. Meanwhile, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association holds a briefing on ...