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Financial planners improve standing in annual trust survey

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... religion (13) all ahead of financial planners. The bottom five professions were car salesmen, advertising people, real estate agents, insurance brokers and union leaders. Also in the bottom half of the table were directors of public companies (18), business ...

Combined Insurance to cease new Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... when whistleblower Alison Moore exposed what she described as a "greed is good" culture at the insurer. She said Combined agents were selling unnecessary products to maximise commissions and "tombstoning" - paying initial premiums for fake or deceased ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... pharmaceuticals, ecommerce, the expansion of services being offered in the cloud, environmental technology, online travel agents and sensors. One of the key forces in play is the displacement of labour by machines. Some of this is factory automation ...

CalPERS chief executive retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... social and governance factors in to its investment portfolio; it navigated sweeping reforms and laws related to placement agents; it implemented a risk mitigation policy and an asset liability management program to ensure long-term sustainability of ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... the Fed tightening between 1999 and 2000." The negative effects of a rising oil price is made more pronounced by economic agents and financial markets anticipating rising inflation which, in turn, leads to monetary policy tightening to quell inflationary ...

Former FPA chair joins Tax Practitioners Board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... in the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (Act). The board's statutory functions include administering the registration of tax agents, BAS agents and tax (financial) advisers; investigating breaches of the Act; and imposing sanctions for non-compliance with ...

Banks to follow NAB's life insurance exit

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... "significant," predicting that "maximum commissions will become the standard default commission across the industry." "Many life agents will moan about the reduction in upfront commissions but smart dealer groups will realise that the higher renewal ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... Some of the fund's latest innovations are tailored at the sector's specific needs. "A lot of our members are real estate agents, but a significant number are property managers and two thirds of our members are females. We need to keep in mind who is ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... BOE is close to lift-off unravels all these good developments, he was quick to reassure financial markets and economic agents and households that, "Once rates begin to adjust, we expect for those adjustments to be at a gradual pace and to a limited extent. ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... it's not. May I remind you again that China is a command economy - the Politburo commands, the economy and its economic agents ask "how high"... sir. This is precisely what's happening now. The government has announced measures defending the stock market ...