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GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Paragraph after paragraph tried to convince me that, "it's bad, it's bad, you know it". It talked about the 2 per cent fall in gross company profits in the March quarter, "led down by a 6.6 per cent collapse in mining profits." It cited sluggish new ...

Never wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011

ANZ plots wealth division growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... in-force premiums for the six months to $1.38 billion, despite losses from the recent flooding, which had an $11 million gross impact on general insurance. Lapse rates improved by 140 basis points. Wealth assets under management in the Asian region climbed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... The S&P 500 index, a broad measure of the markets, rose 4.82 points (0.36 per cent) to 1,360.48. The market shrugged off gross domestic product data from the Commerce Department showing a slowdown in growth in the first quarter to 1.8 per cent from 3.1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... digested news that the economy rebounded in the first three months of the year, in line with market expectations. British gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, after a slumping by 0.5 per cent in the fourth ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... the release of Chinese economic data due at about 1200 AEST. Mr Smith said figures on inflation, industrial production, gross domestic product and retail sales, among others, would be watched closely for signs the Chinese government would need to tighten ...

Instreet gears up with income supplement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011

OnePath upgrades OneCare

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
OnePath has added new features to its life insurance offering, OneCare, and online application, OneCare Express. OneCare and OneCare Express policyholders will have greater trauma benefits while advisers should have better access to the underwriting ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... would expect to see that as people dig into the data.... it's making a contribution of about 0.7 per cent to GDP." Company gross operating profits, in current prices, fell 2.8 per cent in the December quarter, seasonally adjusted, and were up 14.7 per ...