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Fintech is not a threat: FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... educational tools. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori, urged financial planners to start looking at how fintech can help innovate services and enhance the advice process. "Fintech tools have been available to financial planners for some time, but to a ...

Morrison backs customer-owned banking reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... banks and mutuals, which contributed to the sector's significant barriers to growth and access to capital to invest, innovate, grow and compete. One of the 11 recommendations urged for co-operatives and mutuals to directly issue common equity tier 1 ...

VicSuper names new insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... members. VicSuper chief executive Michael Dundon said the new relationship with MetLife enables VicSuper to continue to innovate so members can achieve the best possible balance in growing and protecting their super savings. He added: "VicSuper has evolved ...

Super industry makes largest fee cuts since MySuper reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... retail products which are now closed have fees 40% higher than open contemporary products, implying that rather than innovate and improve legacy products retail product providers have innovated only within their new products. This has the potential to ...

Risk advice firm partners to launch claims service

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... advice throughout the claims process. ACA founding director Rob Vitnell said: "There's never been a more important time to innovate and embrace this changing landscape, by delivering customer service, transparency and customer-centric claims management." ...

Traditional funds too apathetic to super start-ups

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... That is the view of SuperEd chief customer officer James Coyle, who believes traditional funds should be doing more to innovate as they are more than capable of adopting necessary new technologies to replicate the models of emerging start-ups such as ...

Technology and mergers threaten insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... those who get behind innovation, drive strategic partnerships with insurtechs and challenge themselves to continually innovate and better service customers," Baker said.

MLC Life partners to accelerate underwriting process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... The partnership with Pacific Life Re signals the first step in a series of projects MLC Life is undertaking to further innovate its offering to the Australian life insurance market. Nippon Life, which owns an 80% stake in MLC Life, is driving the strategy ...

XTB appoints new CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... continue to recognise the importance of fixed income in a well-balanced portfolio and I am looking forward to continuing to innovate the way in which they can access this important asset class."

Vamos joins Decimal board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... up. "As chief executive of ASFA I spent a lot of time leading the conversation with funds and providers on the need to innovate their engagement models," Vamos said. Vamos said that no fund has yet fully executed on member engagement and believes that ...