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Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... is transitory, while at the same time promising that, "the Committee would be prepared to adjust the stance of monetary policy as appropriate if risks emerge that could impede the attainment of the Committee's goals". While financial markets generally ...

Plan For Life names insurance award winners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021
... Experience Award went to MetLife for the positive outcomes achieved by its health and wellness program, demonstrated by better policy retention and improvements in health experience. The awards are based on an independent, objective and transparent research ...

Super fund documents unreadable: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... Australians read at a tertiary education level, the researcher said. The document with the best grade level was QSuper's privacy policy which would likely be easy to read for members that completed Year 10. However, at 10.6 it is still well short of ...

New FSC board appointment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... on this position as a director and further support the FSC which is playing a vital role in contributing to good public policy for Australia's financial services sector." Last week, the FSC announced that Sally Loane will step down as chief executive ...

Former Women in Super chief joins AIST

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... led Women in Super for the past eight years where she was responsible for responsible for leading the strategy, advocacy, policy, research and campaign work to improve retirement outcomes and access to superannuation for women. She was previously an ...

SCA slams five super funds' junk insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... exception is NGS, which applies the terms to those unemployed for just three months," he said. One example of an unfair policy term is the use of tests known as "activities of daily living" or ADLs to assess members' ability to work as such tests ...

Federation AM partners with BlackRock

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... nationally with an aggregate value of $34 billion and growing. The sector is well supported by the bipartisan government policy and enjoys strong demographic tailwinds and long lease terms with high quality tenants. BlackRock shares Federation's vision ...

Fidelity moves on net zero

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Fidelity International launched a climate investing policy with a rating scheme in a bid to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. The policy includes the introduction of Climate Ratings which assess the net zero targets and alignment of investments. They ...

ASIC sues former Freedom Insurance staff

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... in liquidation. In one instance, the firm sold life insurance to an intellectually disabled man and only cancelled the policy after several instances of correspondence with his family. ASIC said Cohen was knowingly concerned in, or party to, breaches ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... seasons of high inflation that eventually will find its way into inflation expectations... and the consequent monetary policy response. Tightening policy would certainly lessen the "demand pull" side of the inflation equation but I don't think it ...