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Breast Cancer and Heart disease top insurance claims

... insurer this means more than $8 million in payments are paid to breast cancer sufferers. The condition common to both sexes, heart attack is the second highest insurance claim. The average number of claims was at 13 per cent with one in two men and one ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
... lower. Shares of McDonald's tumbled after its chairman and chief executive, Jim Cantalupo, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack. The company named President and Chief Operating Officer Charlie Bell as CEO to succeed Cantalupo. Investors snapped ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
... to weakness in the US unit. Australian stocks should take a positive lead from Wall St and open higher, as investors take heart from encouraging jobs data released there on Friday night. The Australian share market ended last week on a down note, closing ...

AMP to offer $585 million shortfall from rights issue

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
Financial services group AMP Ltd said today it had received acceptances under its rights offer of $A600 million, leaving a shortfall of $585 million. AMP chief executive officer Andrew Mohl said the shortfall in the Rights Offer had been anticipated. ...

RBA likely to keep interest rates on hold till early 2004: ICAP

Michael Thomas, senior economist at ICAP, has said that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will keep interest rates on a holding pattern till early 2004 and are unlikely to be concerned by inflationary pressures, saying that they are well within control. ...

Industry expert John Nolan joins REST Investment Committee

... investment knowledge and business strength to our organisation. For many years John has had the best interests of REST members at heart and has an outstanding track record of providing REST's Investment Committee with invaluable advice and support. He ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Stronger employment figures push ASX to highs

... highest point since June 2002, while the all ordinaries added 9.1 points to 3256.9. Market watchers said investors had taken heart from from new jobs data showing the unemployment rate steady at a 13-year low of 5.8 per cent in October. The good news ...

ASX welcomes proposed fines

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... highlighting the value of the co-regulatory nature of our system of market supervision." Continuous disclosure lay at the heart of the Australian market's reputation of high integrity, Mr Humphry said. The legislation will be introduced to the parliament ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries end day on higher note

The All Ordinaries ended trading this afternoon gaining 9.2 points or a little less than a third of one per cent. Hong Kong stocks rose over a percent, but the clear winner in today's trading was Tokyo's Nikkei index which gained over 3.1% in value ...

National Australia Group in UK insurance tie-up

... General's group director of retail distribution. "Both Legal and General and the National look to put the customer at the heart of business planning and aim to deliver a range of value-for-money products backed by a high level of customer service."