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Life insurance consumers shun financial advisers

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018

... critical factor when purchasing life insurance. Brown said: "Price continues to gain momentum as the determinant of choice for many consumers when it comes to life insurance and income protection cover. It's harder to simply sell on features and service ...

PeakSuper eyes expansion

EMMA RAPAPORT | THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017

... establishment of an SMSF," PeakSuper client manage Shane Kennealy told Financial Standard. "We want to be the administrator of choice for financial planners," Since opening its doors 10 year ago, the company has grown from a few internal clients to over ...

Corporate governance LIC slashes fees, appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE | WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017

... Accordingly, we have reached an agreement with the manager to lower the fee base to help ensure that AQF is the first choice for investors seeking index exposure," Whalan said. As above, Walsh and Company also appointed a dedicated portfolio manager ...

HUB24 upgrades platform

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017

... technology and service improvements to assist advisers. "This is why our focus is on connectivity, value, openness and choice for advisers and their clients. Our open architecture is the key to providing this, as it enables greater responsiveness to ...

QIC adopts regtech solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017

... Asia-Pacific and this important win has helped us to consolidate our position in the Australian market as the gold standard choice for managed data services," he said. "We look forward to continuing our work with QIC and helping it build and maintain ...

EQT acquires stake in UK firm

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017

... fiduciary services in London. "With markets rapidly globalising, Equity Trustees is positioning itself to be a provider of choice for independent, trusted services to fund managers internationally," said Killen. O'Brien added Corporate Trustee Service ...

Advisers can scale via workplace super clients

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017

... strengthen existing relationships with clients that are small to medium-sized business owners, according to IOOF's A better choice for employee well-being report. The paper highlighted key opportunities for advisers to build workplace super advice into ...

NZ manager launches retirement product

EMMA RAPAPORT | MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017

... Lifetime Retirement Income. Simplicity KiwiSaver Schemes managing director Sam Stubbs said the new fund provides welcome choice for older New Zealanders. "Too often retirees have to choose between very low term deposit rates with break fees, or overly ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017

... euro's strength, Draghi still mentioned that discussions on QE tapering are likely to start this autumn. It has no other choice for the programme is set to run only until the end of December this year. But while financial markets widely a schedule (at ...

Citi expands Australian wealth business

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017

... awareness in the region and capture a larger share of this group." He added Citi has been an adviser and manager of choice for wealthy individuals and families globally for the past 200 years and this is an opportunity to leverage that expertise and ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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