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Financial services companies owe consumers $15m compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Financial services providers owe consumers about $15 million in unpaid compensation, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The latest edition of The FOS Circular reveals that since January 1, 2010, a total of 26 financial services companies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following strong gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 47 points at 5,553. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia will ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
A life insurance policy has more in common with car insurance policies than with an investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... Beijing's statistics bureau said on Tuesday the world's second-biggest economy expanded 7.4 per cent in 2014. While the figure is down from 7.7 per cent the previous year and is the weakest since 1990, it beat the median forecast of 7.3 per cent in an ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
The Australian share market is trading lower as weaker prices for oil and copper weigh on the resources sector. "The resources sector is certainly dragging things down," Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "The banks are doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket has started lower following a slide on Wall Street and a fall in commodity prices. Wall Street finished in the red overnight, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down around 1% on the back of disappointing retail figures ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Life insurance premiums jumped 12.9% during 2014 driven by group business, which has surged by 24%. The figures are contained in the latest analysis by insurance industry researcher Plan For Life for the 12 months to September 2014. According to the ...

Instreet acquires ethical platform for responsible investing

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... Lucas believes it is well suited to meeting the growing client demand for ethical investments. "We are confident that this figure can grow substantially," he said. Instreet's current priority, Lucas continued, is helping advisers access ethical ETFs ...

Energy Super unveils new chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2015
... remain on the board of directors. After beginning his career as an apprentice electrician in 1961, Henricks became a leading figure in Queensland's energy industry, the fund said. He was first appointed as director and then chair of ESIS(Q), Energy Super's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
The Australian share market is lower, pulled back by weakness among the major banks and the resources sector. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner says ongoing concern about the falling oil price because of oversupply is hurting the resources ...