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More female clients requires more female advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... companies meet our target of 30%, ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said. Davidson said that one female director does not equate to gender diversity, urging all companies to articulate clear targets and timeframes for achieving them. New research ...

AustralianSuper slashes insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... our ongoing effort to improve services to members," Kerlin said. By way of example, Kerlin said default insurance costs equate to around 0.8% of salary over the member's lifetime in the fund, compared with the code's maximum of 1%. "Importantly, this ...

ANZ attempts sale to Chinese conglomerate, blocked by NZ regulator

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
ANZ's attempted sale of a subsidiary business to a Chinese firm has been blocked by New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office. HNA Group has been in talks to purchase UDC Finance, an asset financing firm acquired by ANZ Bank New Zealand in 1980. ANZ ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... This compares with I (16.6%); G (17.5%) and exports (12.0%) - imports subtract from growth (-14.8). The figures do not equate to 100% (100.2%) due to rounding but the point is that the consumer is king and given latest stats they're feeling like one ...

New consultancy bridges IFA support gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
The rate financial advisers are leaving vertically integrated channels has motivated two industry experts to establish a "ruthlessly independent" community. GreenZone Australia co-founder and partner, Geoff Rimmer, said a significant number of advisers ...

Numbers and needs of female HNWs set to grow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... paying greater attention. "If just 1% of these female entrepreneurs move all the way up to the HNW segment, this would equate to 750 new HNW female entrepreneurs - a considerable opportunity for wealth managers," GlobalData senior wealth management analyst ...

Industry fund reduces insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
An industry super fund with $2.1 billion in assets under management is reducing its premiums on its income protection policy. Intrust Super's PayGuard policy premiums will reduce as much as 12% effective 1 October 2017. Intrust Super chief executive ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
Here we go again, extrapolating as we go. After projected to fall to US$0.70 (or less) only last month, the tide has turned for the Australian dollar after it jumped to a 26-month high versus the greenback to US$0.7933. It's now extrapolated to keep ...

Competition would save Australians millions in super fees: Deloitte

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... director of research and editorial Alex Dunnin noted that a $292 million reduction in MySuper administration fees would equate to only a 7% reduction in total MySuper fees, or 1.5% of total superannuation fees, but added: "a reduction in fees, however ...

ESG holds key to adviser client retention

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Financial advisers that aren't doing more to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios may be left in the dust by millennials. With the new generation of advice clients driving the ESG conversation, Eaton Vance head of Australia Duncan Hodnett ...