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SMSF data misleading: BGL

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... ascertained that ASIC's calculation of the average cost of running an SMSF includes Australian and overseas interest, insurance premiums, forestry managed scheme expenses, investment expenses and something called 'other amounts' - these expenses only ...

Sargon runs out of steam

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... if its Chinese creditors. In a statement to Financial Standard, Sargon said one of its creditors, Chinese state-owned insurance company Taiping Trustees has appointed McGrathNicol as administrator. Shaun Robert Fraser and Jason Preston have been appointed ...

GAM hires, launches new strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... have been implemented to complement GAM's established local offerings, GAM Systematic Alternative Risk Premia and Insurance Linked Securities. Both new funds have already been established overseas and both have been seeded by an Australian investor. ...

AMP adds competitors to platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... its platform as it records a whopping drop in risk sales for 2019. AMP has partnered with AIA and TAL to expand the insurance products offered on its MyNorth platform. Both insurance offers are available for financial advisers and super and pension clients ...

Former Wells Fargo chief banned for life

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... admitted to opening more than 3.5 million fake bank and credit card accounts, as well as forcing borrowers to buy auto insurance they didn't need and illegally repossessing the vehicles of hundreds of military service members. The bank refunded customers ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... able to extend the immune system leading to longer and healthier lives." These biological improvements will disrupt the insurance and superannuation industries. "Current superannuation and insurance business models will no longer be appropriate as people ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
As Australia burns, so too does the bottom line of our listed companies, with real implications for our retail, insurance, agriculture and transport sectors. The Australian economy is also not without risk, with many economists predicting that the bushfire ...

American private debt fund eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... the US for lending to financial services companies, focused on consumers, small businesses, point of sales finance, insurance, payments, legal finance. It was an early lender to homegrown zipMoney. The firm invests in shorter duration, non-syndicated ...

Major life insurers continue to suffer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
The hits keep coming for Australia's life insurance industry, with new data showing total risk premiums inflows dropped by more than $790 million in the 12 months to September 2019, as major players endured another tough year. Australia's life insurance ...

Your Super, Your Choice debate heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... as those who have a self-managed super funds, made specific investment choices in their existing fund or have chosen insurance levels, effectively forcing these individuals to maintain multiple super account." The FSC cited Productivity Commission modelling ...