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Praemium to upgrade platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
Next month Praemium will roll out major upgrades to its integrated managed accounts platform for advisers and investors. Praemium has upgraded the technology, the coverage of the managed accounts, coverage of investments and user functionality, the ...

MLC Life welcomes board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The $500 million outlay to improve systems and technology at MLC Life Insurance is being supported with the appointment of a new board member. MLC Life Insurance recently welcomed Jacqueline Korhonen as an independent non-executive director. She has ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... to be an absence of well, unity. The (dis)United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May and her proposed Brexit deal lost big time in the House of Commons by a record 230 votes - 432 against and 202 for. Now May faces a no-confidence vote and although ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... bank-owned funds, simply because they are run to enhance the retirement savings of their members, not the share price of the big banks," the ACTU said. It added the performance of not-for-profit industry funds was a testament to their governance structure ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... as well - more than 100 companies will need to add female directors to comply with the law." This list includes some of the big players such as Facebook which currently has two of nine directors are women, while Apple has two female directors out of ...

ASFA, ISA, FSC weigh in on the final report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... Australia chief executive Bernie Dean said the Productivity Commission's consumer safeguards were inadequate and ignored big opportunities to boost member accounts. "In essence the Productivity Commission is abandoning the proven, low-cost industrial ...

Advice groups sign on to HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... biggest share of the total masterfunds market ($380 billion), platforms ($343 billion) and master trusts ($137 billion) and the big four dominate. BTFG has the biggest slice of the pie, administering about with $157 billion in FUM (18% of the $860 billion ...

TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Latest figures from research group Strategic Insights show mixed results for the country's largest insurers. Overall, the life insurance sector grew steadily by 1.7% year-on-year and reached $16.5 billion. However, it was a mixed result for the ...

FASEA reforms see ASIC register swell

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... AFSL advisers are licensed under, with the move away from institutional licensees continuing steadily and likely to hasten as big player exit wealth management. It has been widely reported this week that more than 20 financial advisers from Macquarie's ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Sydney residential property was hit hard in 2018, as house prices slid nationally to end the year with the biggest decline quarter on quarter since 2008, according to CoreLogic. Sydney dwellings values fell 8.9% over the year and total returns were ...