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Suncorp Life profit to drop 75%

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... million, compared to $724 million in 2012. The fall also includes a full year loss of about $630 million on the non-core bank business. "The life insurance industry continues to be impacted by negative experience against lapse and claim assumptions," ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... Monday, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases June's retail trade figures, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank is scheduled to release the Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for July, while Dun and Bradstreet puts out ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... news as they're going and get." The big four banks were all trading higher, after falling on Thursday amid speculation of a bank deposit levy. Commonwealth Bank was 52 cents higher to $73.64, NAB was 25 cents higher at $30.98, ANZ had gained 35.5 cents ...

Bank levy upsets senior lobby

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Lobby group National Seniors Australia have criticised the government's plan to put a 0.05% levy on bank deposits in 2016, saying it will force pensioners into riskier investment alternatives. National Seniors Australia chief executive Michael O'Neill ...

Cbus to put focus on custody in new position

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013

Most planners are aligned, consumers think otherwise

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... fund manager that owns the planning group. As many as 51% of the clients using Financial Wisdom (owned by the Commonwealth Bank) think that it is independent, ahead of the 21% who consider Commonwealth Bank branded planners to be independent. Around ...

Taxes, levies and fees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... eurozone and China, the lowest reading of weekly US jobless claims since January 2008 and decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England to maintain low interest rates. At 0756 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... support economic growth, but didn't give a clear indication as to when the $85-billion-a-month scheme would end. The central bank said 1.7 per cent economic growth in the quarter in the US - which was above expectations - showed the economy was recovering ...

Senior CBA exec puts blame on the bank for Storm disaster

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
Senior Commonwealth Bank (CBA) executive Ian Bailey declared that the bank's retail division had a role in the collapse of Storm Capital in January 2009. A document detailing an examination to Bailey by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...