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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 ...

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Open data used by banks and fintechs to innovate and cross-sell products must be underpinned by robust regulation that protects the consumers, otherwise they risk major privacy breaches, according to the Australian Bankers' Association. Educating customers ...

AZ NGA firm procures consultant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... helping people to understand their super, and get the most they can out of it. For us to be able to afford to constantly innovate and improve the services we offer, in today's low cost environment, we must increase our scale," Hall said. The Northbridge ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... Weaven said. "Unless industry superannuation funds can preserve the sense of a collective movement, find ways to both innovate and nurture their motivation, and to serve the interests of working people, then they will instead be shaped by the global ...