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New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
Australian life insurers are unprepared for two new major accounting standards that will shake up the way profit is reported, a KPMG survey shows. The global survey of 160 life and health insurers, and reinsurers included Australian companies. It gauged ...

Planning diploma relevant despite FASEA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... education requirement for financial advisers, Mentor Education believes the DFP will continue to be the qualification of choice for many other roles in the industry. Mentor Education principal Mark Sinclair said the diploma and the advanced diploma have ...

ASIC to ramp up trustee visits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... about whose behaviour is better than the other. It's about: "Am I doing the best for members?" she said. Consumers have no choice but to entrust money to trustees, so the weight of expectations are high, Eccleston added. Hence the power of super trustees ...

BT launches new corporate super solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... included within the new product. "BT is driving super innovation to meet employer and member needs at a time when member choice and access to contemporary quality products are top of mind," BT head of workplace super Matthew Englund said. Developed on ...

APRA to reopen old wounds for CBA, IOOF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... first raised the possibility CFS had breached section 29WA of the SIS Act by not transitioning members properly to either a choice investment option or MySuper product on 21 February 2014. APRA reiterated its position "is and has always been" that CFS ...

Philanthropists must move beyond the hierarchy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
The president at one of the largest US philanthropic institutions believes there is a misnomer that philanthropists must stick to a strict hierarchy when addressing global problems. Speaking at the Philanthropy Australia National Conference this morning ...

Netwealth doubles market share

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... accelerate as many institutions review their wealth management businesses and advisers demand greater flexibility in their choice of platform," Heine said. "Netwealth continues to be very focused on ensuring global leadership in platform technology and ...

More risk advisers offloading practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... influenced more businesses to come to market, he said. "With many more sellers now in the market, there's a larger choice, and a decline in prices now offered," he added. For example, revenue stemming from risk clients under 55-years-old now have ...

Royal Commission challenges super regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... recommended Aon Hewitt may have breached the Corporations Act with regards to three financial advisers moving clients to a choice product and out of a MySuper product. The advisers failed to provide a Statement of Advice and Financial Services Guide ...

OneVue and boutique fund manager ink platform deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... experience to complement Allan Gray's investment expertise. "The breadth of OneVue's platform functionality and investment choice enables growing financial services groups to deliver a sophisticated solution and scale their business at low cost," she ...