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Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... people across the country." The message was sent to the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Insurance Office ...

Super fund COVID-19 requirements to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... quarterly, 15 business days after the end of the month/quarter. The monthly reported information covering complaints, insurance, advice and operational resilience; and the second relating to quarterly reported data on liquidity, early release demographics ...

Financial services jobs show signs of recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... Australian Job Index report. The financial services industry suffered an early, and extreme, contraction in financial and insurance services opportunities of 57.2%, but has staged a bounce back of 38% in June. Overall however the results show that despite ...

ASIC suspends OTC derivatives issuer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... This includes a dispute resolution scheme, arrangements for compensating retail clients, to hold professional indemnity insurance and to allow the termination of existing arrangements with current clients of Union Standard. At this stage no new accounts ...

NAB Private Wealth bolsters executive team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... of business and private bank. Prior to this, she spent three years as chief performance officer of Victorian Managed Insurance Authority. Bond has deep expertise and experience in strategy, finance and transformation from working in consultancy, financial ...

Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... home are more likely to avoid poverty in retirement. "We have a rigid system here; we give our money to super funds and insurance, and while insurance can benefit some for others it is simply a drain on their retirement savings," Bragg said. "Home ownership ...

AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... produce better outcomes for super fund members, was causing a fee increase. "The Federal Parliament had passed laws around insurance and some other matters, effectively designed to reduce fees for members and this fund was saying they were going to increase ...

Industry funds team up in longevity search

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... Carruthers says currently, retirees are implicitly using about 30% of their account based pension balances as a form of self-insurance/longevity protection by drawing down less when they are in early stages of retirement. "It's a bit like not insuring ...

Research slams ADL definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... advocacy arm of CHOICE, has highlighted how difficult it is for people to claim total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance under the activities of daily living (ADL) definition. The research found the use of ADL definitions has declined somewhat ...

Australian Ethical divests Mercer parent company

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... Australian Ethical has pulled the plug on a $5 million shareholding in Marsh & McLennan, pointing to the provision of insurance services to a mining conglomerate as grounds for the divestment. The investment in Marsh & McLennan was held in the firm's ...