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Platform cancels top 50 funds list

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... objective criteria, lack of independence of research teams and associated governance," FCA director of supervision - life insurance and financial advice Debbie Gupta wrote. "Processes for clear selection, monitoring and deselection of funds on lists ...

AMP hangs on to AFLPA mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... competitiveness and security of AMP's workplace superannuation offer," Wade said. "The quality and flexibility of AMP's insurance offer, competitive investment management fees and insurance premiums, investment performance, diversified MySuper portfolios ...

Westpac to review business units

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... risk," he said. These include wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments, and general and life insurance and auto finance, he added. It will also include Westpac Pacific. Commenting on Yetton's appointment, King described ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Evolution Mining, and food stocks; like Elders Resources and Bega Cheese. After their capital raisings, NAB and QBE Insurance also look attractive, Lee said. Dawes also believes there is opportunity in the market for those starting out. "For younger ...

COVID-19 drives Aussies to check exemptions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Economic has heard. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics hearing into the life insurance sector, ClearView managing director Simon Swanson responded to a series of questions levelled by Labor MP Andrew Leigh about ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... in the coming weeks and months, protection in the form of safe haven assets, portfolio diversification and volatility insurance will be increasingly important for investors. "As rates remain lower for even longer, securities that can offer sustainable ...

Advice chief leaves industry fund giant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... consultant alongside former CommInsure chief actuary Jennifer Lang. Lang has been appointed as a consultant to the fund's insurance committee. The changes arrived amid a hectic period for the fund, which recently devalued its unlisted assets in response ...

Former Spectrum Wealth, NAB advisers banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... SMSF and provide them with statements of advice. "In one instance, Myers advised her client to roll over existing life insurance to the newly established SMSF," ASIC said. "As a result, the client lost life insurance cover and subsequently the client's ...

Top adviser queries revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... result in the inadvertent cancellation of a member's salary continuance, life and total and permanent disability insurance".

AZ NGA makes 64th acquisition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... interest in a risk advice business with offices in Sydney and Brisbane. Certe Wealth Protection is a specialist risk insurance advice business that currently employs four advisers and seven support staff. It has approximately $16 million of inforce premium. ...