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AXA launches online insurance tool

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
AXA Australia has launched an online tool to help advisers keep track of their clients' insurance applications. The new Application Status Report provides real time information on the progress of AXA insurance applications. "The best analogy for the ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) estimates that the total cost of unnecessary and duplicate superannuation accounts is $315 million per year, a fraction of the $2 billion figure by consumer group CHOICE. The findings were ...

ANZ to offer Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
The Over Fifty Group has just announced that it will begin piloting a reverse mortgage product with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). ANZ will begin offering Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages as soon as today in selected areas as part ...

Super funds write off Cross City Motorway stakes

Super funds State Super and the Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA) have written down their investments in the Cross City Motorway and assured fund members that potential losses will not have a material impact on their funds' total returns. ...

Unit pricing not always best: Buttler Walker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Despite the push to make unit pricing the standard for how super funds report investment returns, interest rate based approaches can be just as robust, argue actuaries Buttler Walker. In a just released comment paper, Buttler Walker said, "It is important ...

It's a wrap for UK pensions: Zurich

Zurich Financial Services Australia has announced that its wrap services are all stamped as 'Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes' (QROPS) which will allow UK migrants to transfer their funds to Australia without heavy tax penalties. In April ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
The economic impact of the Federal Government's baby bonus as well as improved employment conditions in Australia have helped improved the national birth rate, according to the latest data from the ABS. The national birth rate is the highest since 1995 ...

More countries sign up for REITs

The US$1.03 trillion global real estate investment trust (REIT) sector is poised for further growth with UK and Germany setting up REIT-like investment structures next year and other countries such as Italy, Finland, Mexico and Spain considering it. ...

ASIC clearing guidlines will segment the service chain

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
Superannuation clearing house providers will now have to provide employers with product disclosure statements (PDS) after a recent Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review found that they fall under the financial services licensing ...

Citigroup taps into migrant banking needs

Citigroup Australia's Global Transaction Services division has this week launched a new retail banking service that will provide low cost and secure remittance facilities for immigrants sending money back to their former home countries. "This is a large ...