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Annuities not right for default pensions: Rice Warner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
Life annuities are not appropriate for default pension products as they lock members' money away, according to Rice Warner chief executive Michael Rice. Rice Warner has devised a default pension product based solely on an account-based pension model. ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... members. The self-managed super (SMSF) sector is even more thinly spread across fixed income assets. Figures sourced by Rice Warner and cited by the Australian Bankers Association (ABA) in one of its two submissions to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) ...

Group risk premiums on the up: Rice Warner

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Australia's group life segment has begun increasing premium levels, Recent Rice Warner analysis shows. The research and consulting business for the superannuation industry compared the average premiums for death and TPD cover for the 10 largest industry ...

MySuper is bringing fees down: Rice Warner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... MySuper is doing its job in bringing down superannuation fees despite recent reports to the contrary, according to Rice Warner head of superannuation market insights Nathan Bonarius. In a report published today, Bonarius said that between 30 June 2012 ...

Intra-fund advice is also a commission: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... provisions at the heart of FoFA, they want to extend the grandfathering of sales commissions at the same time," he added. Rice Warner research commissioned by the ISA calculated that paying financial advisers grandfathered commissions and other incentives ...

FoFA changes to cost consumers millions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, a report has found. The report, carried out by Rice Warner and commissioned by Industry Super Australia (ISA), said the removal of opt-in requirements and the allowance of grandfathering ...

Rice Warner overhauls structure, makes key appointments

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
Financial services consultancy Rice Warner has restructured its business into three key teams, life insurance, superannuation and investments and has added a digital consulting team. As part of the restructure the company has promoted Thierry Bareau ...

Weatherhead to leave Rice Warner for AustralianSuper

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
A former Rice Warner principal is set to join industry superannuation fund AustralianSuper in an insurance role. Richard Weatherhead who is head of life insurance at the independent consulting firm Rice Warner will depart to take up the position product ...

Member direct investment at "high water mark": AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... everyone's hot topic, the level of interest and enthusiasm for it I think has waned to an extent," he said. He quoted a Rice Warner study that found that only "about a dozen funds" had got MDI capabilities under development. "It really hasn't taken the ...

FSS increases insurance premiums

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... changes come into effect on 1 January 2014 based on a consultancy analysis the fund commissioned from actuarial advisers Rice Warner. The fund has advised members that if they are uncomfortable with the insurance price increase and they wish to downgrade ...