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FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... chapter of its submission, The FSC said the current structure of Australia's insurance framework is inhibiting product innovation, creating underinsurance and unnecessary public sector cost, the Financial Services Council said today. FSC director of ...

Passive FUM reaches all-time high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
Funds allocated to index strategies grew 28% in the 12 months to end of March 2014, taking the total proportion of the funds management market it represents to a record high of 19%, new data from Rainmaker Information reveals. The rise is the fastest ...

FSI zeroes in on vertical advice and retirement income

LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... maintaining the relatively unregulated status quo, but introducing legislation to allow for more retirement product innovation. It considered the benefits of deferred lifetime annuities, group self-annuitisation, and the possibility of the government ...

Former Macquarie exec to head IRESS division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... international and local experience. The breadth and depth of this experience, including in financial services product innovation and technology-enabled, customer-focused roles, makes him ideally suited to this position and will bring an invaluable perspective ...

Former Macquarie exec joins IRESS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... international and local experience. "The breadth and depth of this experience, including in financial services product innovation and technology-enabled, customer-focused roles, makes him ideally suited to this position and will bring an invaluable perspective ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The prospect of rising interest rates has forced institutional investors to sit up and take notice of product innovations in the fixed income market. But with so many strategies to choose from, how do large investors and their advisers choose the right ...

Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... million. Challenger chief executive Brian Benari said: "Retail annuity sales continue to be propelled by our product innovation and a rising number of baby boomer retirees. In what is seasonally our quietest sales period, we have maintained sales momentum ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... environment, and removing the taxation arbitrage that exists between different types of products will deliver the product innovation and choice required to meet the needs of Australia's retirees." Another possibility that is often talked about, though ...

CommInsure wins AFA/PFL Life Company of the Year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... Award: Zurich Term/TPD Award: AMP Elevate Trauma Award: AMP Financial Services Income Protection Award: TAL Risk Product Innovation Award: AIA (Vitality Program) Investment Bond Award: CommInsure Annuity and Income Stream Results Overall Annuity Provider ...

Actuaries call for overhaul of retirement phase rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... relation to the retirement income products they are offered and considers the removal of current impediments to product innovation an essential element of such a review, as well as ensuring that appropriated safeguards are in place to protect consumers ...