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Argo Investments attacks Labor franking policy

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
The listed investment company, with about $5.5 billion in funds under management, condemned Labor's franking credit policy at its annual general meeting. Holding its AGM this morning, Argo Investments said Labor's policy to remove refundable franking ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... Trump's take on the previous day's slump on Wall Street that shook equity markets around the world. Trump continued his attack on the Fed as the slide on Wall Street continued overnight. "It's a correction that I think is caused by the Fed ...

Insurance shake-up puts clients first

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... deducting premiums from deceased members' accounts. CommInsure may have breached statutory obligations for advertising heart attack cover that was misleading and deceptive. Orr said it's open to the Commission to find ClearView engaged in misconduct ...

Zurich helps advisers quantify cost of care

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 OCT 2018
... between 15 and 64. One in three will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 75, while one Australian will suffer a heart attack every 10 minutes. This piece of research will help advisers move clients from having minimal interest in insurance to ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... Helen Troup accepted CBA misled the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in the case of one claimant who suffered from a heart attack. It also made inappropriate challenges to its jurisdiction and failed to provide information requested that breached FOS' ...

CommInsure misled FOS: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... several operations. The customer successfully claimed for coronary artery angioplasty, but was denied a claim for a heart attack because CommInsure's medical experts deemed the condition failed to meet the definition. On 9 March 2016, the customer ...

FSC responds to direct life insurance findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... code, along with a new set of standardised medical definitions, on July 1. This included new definitions for cancer, heart attack and stroke in trauma and critical illness policies that were developed via consultation with medical professionals; they ...

Super assets hit new record

STEPHEN FAY, DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
Australians' retirement savings reached a record high of $2.7 trillion at the end of June 2018, latest APRA data shows. MySuper continued to grow at a faster rate than other segments to make up 25% of the asset pool. MySuper assets grew 13.6% to $675.6 ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... against China (which of course, brought back trepidation over an escalation of the trade war) and most recently he went on attack against his own central bank - the US Federal Reserve. Apparently, in his mind the Fed's rate rises are undermining ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
"I got chills, they're multiplying..." - Grease The Australian dollar is down! Repeat, the Australian dollar is down! At the time of writing, Australia's legal tender is trading 5.8% lower against the US this year to date; 3.2% cheaper against ...