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Corporate Finance | Sprint Looks At Greener Pastures as Clearwire Debt Indicates Distress
Corporate finance experts warn that bonds of Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), the company which will be completely sapped of cash by 2012 according to Standard & Poor’s, are already beginning to show symptoms of impending default. That is even as partner, and Clearwire’s largest stakeholder, Sprint Nextel Corp. has, in the typical fashion of rats abandoning a sinking ship, moved to strike a deal with a competing internet service provider.
The wireless provider, already unprofitable for some time now, saw its bonds fall another 12 per cent this month. This drop could mean that Clearwater won’t be able to raise the capital it needs — in a bid to salvage the fast-dwindling customer base — to Transition to the technology that’s already being used by rivals.
Yields on Clearwire’s debt have increased by 4.35 percentage points from 10.87 percent since Sprint’s 15 year deal with LightSquared to provide network carriage for its mobile-phone service was announced on July 28, compared with an average 0.9 percent rise for bonds.
Clearwire requires about $150 million to $300 million of capital to meet the expenses of upgrading its current network to a technology called WiMax. The company pla
Savers ‘still at risk of being mis-sold complex products’
The regulator says consumers are at risk of being mis-sold as they struggle to cope with falling investment returns, low interest rates and a slower economy.
In its Retail Conduct Risk Outlook, the FSA has highlighted the products which it fears pose the greatest risk of consumer detriment over the next year – and warned firms that it will be scrutinising sales of these products in detail.
These include a range of more complex investments, such as structured products, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), absolute return funds and traded life insurance policies.
The FSA also said it was concerned about the wealth management advice offered by some private banks, as well as the sale of many unregulated investments to ordinary consumers.
However, the regulator also made it clear was is keeping an eye on less specialist areas of the market – such as the insurance, banking, pension and mortgage markets – where it said there was the potential for consumers to lose money, either through buying unsuitable products or by taking unnecessary risks with their money.
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Accountants key to more SMSF life sales
Life advisers should be building strategic relationships with accountants to win more self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) business.
Asteron EGM Jordan Hawke told insuranceNEWS.com.au accountants are the key driver to selling more life insurance to SMSF members.
“The key is to build a strategic relationship with accountants as they are the ones setting up and advising members of these funds,” he said.
“There are also the potential Future of Financial Advice reforms for accountants to come, so now is the time to seek out those relationships.”
According to the Australian Tax Office (ATO), the value of insurance policies in SMSFs last September was $197 million.
This compares to the earliest date from the ATO, 2004, when there was $328 million of policies held by SMSF members.
The ATO also includes general insurance policies that would be covering assets such as buildings, so the total life insurance sales are probably lower.
In the latest SMSF figures, there are 841,283 members and funds are growing. In the
Nielsen: Americans Spends More Time on Faceboook Than Any Other Site
Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other destination on the Web, Nielsen said in its latest social media report.
In fact, American Internet users now devote more time to Facebook than any other site, spending a total of 53.5 billion minutes a month using the social network at home and at work. Thats more than Yahoo (17.2 billion minutes), Google (12.5 billion), YouTube (9.1 billion), Blogger (724 million), Tumblr (624 million) and Twitter (565 million) combined.
The study found that social media use was growing on mobile devices as well. Social networking app usage is up 30 percent from last year, and more than twice as many people over 55 visited sites like Facebook and Twitter on their smartphones in May 2011 than May 2010.
Nielsen also revealed that heavy social media users were more social in real life than their unplugged counterparts, too.