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MLC launches digital underwriting platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... digital underwriting platform and is promising to provide "instant quotes" for life insurance cover in as little as five minutes. The digital tool will query a comprehensive database of industry standard questions to assess a person's health and lifestyle ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... the same period - lifting overall inflation in the economy. This gives credence to the Fed's thoughts revealed in the minutes of the 20-21 March FOMC meeting: "A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... been for Trump's attack threat on Syria (now retreat) the other day, financial markets would have been dissecting the minutes of the Fed's 20-21 March FOMC meeting. There really was nothing significant except for a sentence alluding to a more aggressive ...

Optimo adds SMSF modelling to platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... basis and enable financial advisers and paraplanners to produce comprehensive financial strategies for clients within minutes, he added. Advisers can sign up for a free trial of the current system, including the SMSF beta release. Bannister said the ...

MAX Awards nominations close soon

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... director of Rainmaker Group which owns Financial Standard. Submitting your nominations is easy, it takes less than five minutes to complete the form, where you can nominate in as many categories as you wish. For more information, go to the nominations ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of retail sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe must be sporting a smile on his lips for just a day after the Board met on the April 3, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest report on retail spending and...it was good. The ...

Global Merces launches managed funds regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... services provider Global Merces has launched a regtech solution that slashes the managed funds application process to five minutes. FUND.ID, a straight through processing system, on-boards new clients using an electronic signature and bank level encryption. ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won..." As revealed in the minutes of the 24-25 January Governing Council meeting: "some members expressed a preference for dropping the easing bias regarding ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... US$78.30/tonne. This is higher than the US$77.50 at the time the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met on 5 September last year. The minutes of that meeting later revealed the board's expectations for iron ore prices "to fall in the period ahead because ...