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MLC fixes premiums for 12 months

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
MLC Life Insurance's base premium rates for retail life insurance policies will remain on hold until October next year. This affects MLC Insurance, MLC Insurance Super, Protectionfirst, Personal Protection Portfolio and Life Cover Super retail customers. ...

AMP improves adviser mental health training

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
AMP has refreshed its mental health training for financial advisers with new content that exceeds the minimum standards of the Life Insurance Code. Initially designed for customer-facing insurance staff, the modules aim to help advisers manage difficult ...

Powerwrap names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
The chief executive of Bennelong Wealth Partners and chief operating officer of one of the largest single family offices in Australia will be the next chief executive of Powerwrap. Following the resignation of Cormac Heffernan in December 2016, the ...

Advisers back higher education standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
An exclusive Financial Standard polling of the 2017 Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) awards finalists show overwhelming support for more stringent proficiency requirements - but the industry can still expect a major fallout from those who choose ...

SuperConcepts chief joins Macrovue board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
The chief executive of SuperConcepts has joined Macrovue's board. Natasha Fenech, who became chief executive of AMP's self-managed super fund administration business in January 2016, will now assume a directorial position at Macrovue, which is also ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
"They float. They all float!" Nah, not scribbling to spook the bejeesus out of you ala Pennywise the clown of "It" fame. Au contraire, the quote refers to the manufacturing PMI survey releases showing that the world's biggest economies are all - not ...

Centuria listed funds CEO to step down

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
Centuria's chief executive, listed funds will step down from his role in January 2018, transitioning to a support position. Nick Collishaw was appointed to his current role in May 2013. Before that, he was chief executive and managing director of Mirvac ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
They were just hours apart but the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy decisions were as wide as their geographic locations, perhaps wider. While both central banks kept existing policies unchanged at their September meetings ...

Lazy LIF planning means advice businesses at risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
With four months to go the majority of risk advisers are still not prepared for impending changes to remuneration to be brought by the Life Insurance Framework taking effect in January 2018. A study of 200 risk advisers commissioned by Zurich found ...