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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 ...

ASFA calls for clarity on retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... are guarded against the financial consequences of longevity. Removing such impediments would also encourage product innovation," it said. The previous government had planned to legislate the proposed reforms this year. However, in December Senator Sinodinos ...

Nikko AM names global head of Investment

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... for international retail sales and global institutional sales. Hideyuki Omokawa is the new head of Strategic Product Innovation overseeing the development of products on a global scale. He was previously FGI Capital Partners' president. The former UBS ...

Banks' super products set to be next industry battlefield

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... competition, as "the insurance component in MySuper is less defined than the investment side and that's where the product innovation will come from."

Voting opens on SelectingSuper's Consumer Choice award

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... ever and almost as good as it gets for the sector. "Combined with the unprecedented level of technological and product innovation happening among superannuation funds and products, superannuation is primed to deliver even more for members in the coming ...