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AustralianSuper slashes insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... that will save members $100 million over the next financial year. From May 2018, AustralianSuper and life insurance partner TAL will decrease life insurance premiums by 14% for death cover; 6% for total and permanent disability (TPD); and 20% for income ...

Perennial appoints institutional sales lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Perennial Value Management and Daintree Capital are welcoming a new head of institutional sales. Dan Birch will lead the fund manager's institutional sales division, responsible for marketing and selling Perennial's equity and risk management product ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Now we've seen it all - the "most hated bull market in history" and the "most widely-expected correction." To wax pedantic about this, the Dow and the S&P 500's big drop on the 5 February 2018 does not even fit the technical definition of a correction ...

Performance fees drive Janus Henderson post-merger revenues

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
Janus Henderson's pro-forma adjusted revenue increased by 11% in the 12 months to 31 December 2017, driven by investment performance and higher average assets under management. Janus Henderson said strong markets delivered a 9% average increase in AUM ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
"Be careful what you wish for." It's a well-known truism in the current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears ...

Financial services pay top dollar for compliance, IT skills

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
In the wake of recent financial services and bank scandals, job opportunities in risk management and compliance within the sector are forecast to boom in 2018, Robert Walters' latest salary survey shows. With large-scale remediation projects in banking ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Wells Fargo has become the third major US bank to take action on gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US ...

TAL strengthens group life business development team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
TAL has promoted a member of its group insurance team to a business development leadership role. Lisa Larkin is now national manager of strategic business development, responsible for overseeing all new business activity for the group insurance team. ...

TAL enhances adviser learning hub

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
Life insurer TAL has added a suite of new courses to its learning hub in an effort to help advisers meet new legislative and educational requirements. TAL Risk Academy added 16 new courses covering superannuation and insurance advice, financial underwriting ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
Uh-oh. This shouldn't be happening! No, no, no. Only a few days after Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee went public and declared the stock market in a "parabolic rise" - a bullish signal for the remainder of the year and which has failed ...