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Life insurers must address group risk schemes: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) believes an unexpected increase in the cost of insurance for superannuation fund members has come from life insurers not addressing underlying structural issues in group risk schemes. In APRA's 2015 ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... providers and a good team: "From 50 to 60% of what comes at my desk might be routine, but the other 40 to 50% is a new problem to solve, a challenge to look out for every day." His favourite part of being at the helm of the $1.3 billion super fund is ...

Australian politics spooks foreign infra investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... infrastructure investments, for the scale of investment seeking exposure to Australian assets," Lyon said. "Finance is not the problem. There is a wall of money wanting to invest in Australia, we just need to get the structures right."

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... would lower growth in commodity producing countries and emerging markets that would return to bite Uncle Sam's behind. The problem is a dovish statement from the Fed could weaken the US dollar - i.e. strengthen the euro and the yen and other currencies ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... insurance can aid member retention is that both the industry and the wider Australian public are becoming more aware of the problem of underinsurance and its cost to the community. As Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees executive manager ...

Financial System Inquiry response cut-out-and-keep guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) conducted a root and branch examination of Australia's financial system, making 44 recommendations to increase efficiency, resilience and fair treatment of the financial system. In its response, the government has ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... and I started building a business for when, a decade later, I knew Australian institutions would recognise they had a problem with their asset allocation. The bet was that Australia was going to wake up to alternatives and that we could be the solution." ...

Governance Institute pulls support for super bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
The Governance Institute has pulled its initial support for the government's bill on superannuation fund boards and is now calling for it to be scrapped. "The process has become overly politicised to the detriment of genuine governance outcomes," a ...

ASFA supports SGC bill with increased ATO resources

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... submission ASFA noted studies around SG non-compliance in Australia which found the issue is a $2.5 billion per annum problem. Quoting a report prepared by Tria Investment Partners for CBUS, AustralianSuper and REST last year, ASFA said "around 650,000 ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...