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Westpac faces lending practices breach: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... ahead in repayments," Westpac said in a media statement. Westpac chief executive, consumer bank George Frazis said: "It is not in the bank's or customers' interests to put people into loans that they cannot afford to repay. It goes hand in hand that ...

Value investors facing short-term headwinds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... high-growth companies with high price earnings ratio such as Dominos Pizza, Blackmores, Brambles and TPG are stocks Perennial would not normally invest in. In the last six months these companies continued to outperform, which he says he never understood ...

Super funds trawling eBay for legacy parts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... consumer outcomes and benefit financial advice and life insurance. But we can deliver even better outcomes for consumers - not by introducing a product design and distribution obligation - but instead by introducing product rationalisation for life insurance ...

Synchron vows to end yearly renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... yearly renewable life insurance premium structure despite the fact that "this kind of insurance is by its very nature designed not to be in force when a claim is most likely to happen." The Synchron/AIA product will allow advisers to offer clients policies ...

ACBC partners with Praemium

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Exchange traded bond provider Australian Corporate Bond Company partnered with Praemium to launch a fixed income separately managed account solution. The 'Yield Plus' portfolio, which invests in individual investment-grade corporate bonds through exchange ...

Arnhem SMA rating receives upgrade

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... SMA rating as being 'Investment Grade'. The Global Growth SMA invests solely in global growth companies derived from sectors not represented on the ASX, including semiconductors, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Human Super pitches product designed for women

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... Financial Standard. "For me, I have one daughter and Mike has two, and for us this statistic is just shocking and this is not the world that I want my daughter to live in. This is a fund that is aimed at solving the superannuation gap for women." The ...

CommInsure cleared of systemic problems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
An independent expert report compiled by Deloitte has cleared CommInsure of having systemic culture issues when it comes to claims handling processes. The Deloitte report states that no systemic issues related to historically declined claims were identified ...

Australia missing golden export opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
The current withholding tax regime is severely stifling management of offshore funds, and by extension, the Australian economy. New research from UBS Asset Management and the Financial Services Council shows that over the past 30 years, the amount of ...

Deutsche Bank equities head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... Australia and New Zealand. Deutsche Bank Australia chief executive Michael Ormaechea said Jokovic made "an enormous contribution not only to our equities business in Australia, but to Deutsche Bank more broadly. He has been one of our most loyal and ...