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Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... and embedding native content, both video and editorial. But there are challenges - how do you cover compliance or financial ifs, buts, and maybes in a 90-second video? Many super funds see video as the initial opportunity to engage customers before any ...

Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Industry Fund Services (IFS) and dealer group Infocus Wealth Management will provide full financial advice services to First Super members. Under the arrangement, Infocus' financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia ...

IFS opens unlisted infrastructure assets to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... unlisted Australian infrastructure fund can now be accessed by retail investors, via a vehicle managed by Industry Fund Services (IFS) The IFS Infrastructure Investment Model pools retail investors' funds and then invests them in the IFM Australian Infrastructure ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
It's a done deal! No more ifs, ors, ands and buts. You can bet the house on it - including all its contents (breathing or otherwise) - that four days from now, on 22 January, you, I and Irene would hear the European Central Bank (ECB) announce two letters ...

IFS Insurance Solutions MD appointed at CommInsure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
IFS Insurance Solutions managing director has been appointed head of industry and public sector funds, wholesale life insurance at CommInsure. Robert Nunez will join CommInsure in early 2015 and will be focusing on addressing "the key drivers and issues ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of the main "ifs" Deutsche Bank chief economist, Adam Boyton, set forth as one of the preconditions for the dollar-A to hit 0.66 versus the ...

Group insurance consortiums 'inevitable': MetLife

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... inevitable as time goes by, because of the scale of these large operations," he said. Goodall was responding to a question from IFS Insurance Solutions principal, client service and operations Shane Fielding. "There's up to half a dozen industry funds ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research, which was conducted in association with IFS Insurance Solutions, looks at the claims experience of 13 industry super funds relating to death claims due to suicide, and ...

Kinetic Super launches intra-fund advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Kinetic Super has partnered with Industry Funds Services (IFS) to launch its first intra-fund advice service, providing members with limited advice on insurance cover, contributions or investment choice. The service will be provided and licenced under ...

Brogden leaves FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
John Brogden will step down as chief executive of the Financial Services Council (FSC) at the end of the year, FSC chairman Greg Cooper has announced. Brogden leaves the role to take up a position as chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company ...