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Mercer chooses new super insurance partner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...

Super funds lagging on group insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
Federal Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer stressed the importance of "balancing the offering of insurance inside superannuation" in her speech at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference. She noted ...

Super execs: Size is not scale

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Size is not the same as having effective economies of scale in superannuation funds, leading management consultants and super executives have told the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia annual conference. TRIA Investment Partners' ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... world. We see US earnings higher off the back of tax cuts however the impact on markets will be offset by a higher risk premium and higher interest rates which will impact the multiple," he said. "Our portfolios are reasonably positioned. We have a high ...

BTFG navigates wealth management headwinds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
BT Financial Group's cash earnings contribution to Westpac has fallen by 4% to $876 million in the past year, indicating an increasing pressure on the big four banks' wealth management divisions. Cash earnings for BTFG's funds management division dropped ...

ANZ wealth sale marks end of an advice era

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... life insurance business to Nippon Life. Speaking to Financial Standard, recently-appointed AdviceIQ consultant and former Premium Wealth Management chief executive Paul Harding-Davis said that Elliott's views are increasingly commonplace in the institutional ...

ASIC bans Brisbane life adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
ASIC has banned a Brisbane based life insurance financial adviser from providing financial services for five years after an investigation found he had failed to comply with several financial services laws. Former authorised representative of Affinia ...

Spire Capital launches second US seniors housing fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... management fee model you have here," he said. "Institutional investors love to buy stabilised assets and will pay a portfolio premium to acquire those assets." The goal, he added, was to "buy the assets, fix them, execute a value-add strategy, include ...

AMP implements significant insurance changes

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... process." AMP Life has executed a binding quota share agreement with Munich Re to reinsure 50% of $750 million on annual premium income of the AMP Life retail portfolio and will commence on 1 November 2016. The agreement has the potential to release ...