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AIA signs life insurance deal with RAC

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... at no extra cost for RAC members. The partnership with RAC follows recent deals struck between AIA Australia and Bendigo Bank to provide life insurance to their customers, and last year's bancassurance agreement with Citibank. "RAC strives to provide ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... Weaker growth... Perhaps, by publishing its downgraded growth and inflation forecasts two days before the European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting, the EC is giving the ECB a wink, wink, nudge, nudge that it's time. Time for QE. Perhaps, perhaps, p ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... is due out, as is the Australian Institute of Company Directors' Director Sentiment Index. In equities news, Commonwealth Bank is expected to give its first quarter trading update and CSR to post its half year results while Transfield Services has its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... figures and international trade in goods and services data later on Tuesday morning. In other major economic news, the Reserve Bank of Australia, at 1430 AEDT, will announce its interest rate decision, which is widely expected to be unchanged. Among ...

Treasury Group merger postponed to November

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
Treasury Group's merger with Northern Lights Capital Group, which was expected to be completed by the end of October, has now been postponed until November due to outstanding regulatory conditions. "The material conditions that remain outstanding are ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... folks, the first Tuesday of November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at that) - for nearly 25 years and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... December share price index futures contract was down three points at 5,490. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

CBA appoints litigators as customer advocates

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has appointed three law firms as independent customer advocates for its Open Advice Review compensation program. Maurice Blackburn, Shine Lawyers and Slater and Gordon have been appointed to support individual customers through ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Westpac was nine cents higher at $34.87 at 1015 AEDT. Of the other banks, ANZ was up 12 cents at $33.62, National Australia Bank had added 10.5 cents to $35.095, while Commonwealth Bank had lost two cents to $80.46. Supermarket giant Woolworths lost ...

Westpac director resigns from board

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Westpac director Ann Pickard will retire from the board after the bank's annual general meeting on 12 December, chairman Lindsay Maxsted announced in a statement. Pickard has been a member of the Westpac Board since December 2011. During her time as ...