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Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
A spokesperson for the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed to Financial Standard that draft legislation pertaining to the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) will be formally re-introduced in early October when Federal ...

IOOF upgrades Pursuit functionality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
IOOF has introduced a new automatic re-weighting function to its Pursuit platform. The new feature, available through Pursuit's Portfolio Online portal, allows advisers to choose between re-weighting client's portfolios to a desired percentage or to ...

Zurich vet joins SuiteBox

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Zurich's former head of sales strategies life and investments has taken up a new role at subscription-based mobile office software provider SuiteBox. Andy Marshall, who worked with Zurich - initially as a regional sales manager - from 2012 to September ...

Myer Family Investments chair to retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Myer Family Investments will renew its board after its October 18 annual general meeting. Martyn Myer, appointed as chair in 2011, will retire from the board and be replaced by Sidney Myer, who currently serves as a non-executive director. Martyn Myer ...

Federal Court approves Zurich's Macquarie acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... Life staff will transfer to Zurich and Zurich's customer-base will grow by 60%. Zurich Life and Investments chief executive TIm Bailey said: "This acquisition sees the coming together of two businesses which share a track record of customer service excellence ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...

First Super names new co-chair

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
Industry super fund First Super has appointed a new co-chair. Stepping in to the new role is Lisa Marty. She has been a director on First Super's board for four years and was previously a chief executive of the Victorian Association of Forestry Industries. ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
Superannuation fund disclosure is under a spotlight for the second time in as many weeks. This time the focus is centred on super funds' investment portfolios with a survey from activist group Market Forces showing 86% of Australians want to know where ...

ASIC bans fraudulent adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
ASIC permanently banned a financial adviser after he was sentenced and imprisoned for fraud charges. Sandeep Madhoji is permanently banned from providing financial services or engaging in credit activity following the successful prosecution of the Queensland ...

Well-known stockbroker launches own SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
A well-known stockbroker has introduced two managed accounts strategies aimed at retail investors and advisers. Owner and author of daily stockmarket newsletter Marcus Today, Marcus Padley has introduced two SMAs, partly to service the clients of Marcus ...