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Group insurance dominates life insurance channels: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The majority of people canvassed in Financial Standard's weekly poll reveal they have life insurance via their superannuation fund. About 60% of respondents said life insurance was available via their employer or super fund. Almost one-in-three (32%) ...

ASIC ramps up surveillance and remediation after adviser conflict report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
ASIC is ramping up its surveillance and remediation processes to help curb further adviser conflicts of interest within vertically integrated institutions. In light of the Report 562 findings, which examined adviser conflicts of interest across bank-owned ...

Population growth drives real income

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... world attractively priced." In terms of infrastructure deals, the fund is closely following Transurban's participation in the sale of WestConnex and what it means for the firm's exisiting infrastrcuture portfolio.

Traditional advice strategies pose retirement risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... investments in one person's name will cause issues in the future. In particular, there may be significant capital gains tax on the sale of shares or property. It can also cause problems when both have retired, if all the income is in one person's name," ...

MetLife awards $11bn custody mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
MetLife Australia is included among a $10.9 billion custody mandate awarded by its global parent across three key Asia Pacific markets. The US-based life insurer awarded the US$8.7 billion ($10.9 billion) custody mandate to HSBC Securities Services. ...

FIIG Securities head of intermediaries departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
The head of intermediaries at FIIG Securities has left the company after 10 years. Simon Michell joined FIIG in 2007 as a senior dealer. After that, he took on the role of associate director, followed by director - fixed income sales and national manager ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Institutional trading platform firm Tourmaline Partners is opening an office in Sydney and will be led by two former Northern Trust executives. James Santo and Neil Hetherington were appointed as managing directors of Tourmaline's Australian operations ...

Phone leads life insurance sales: Roy Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
Using the telephone was the most popular means of purchasing life insurance policies in the year to November, the latest Roy Morgan survey shows. One-quarter (24.7%) of the 7632 consumers polled in Roy Morgan's Single Source survey rang the company ...

IOSCO issues caution over ICOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions warns Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have clear risks and are highly speculative investments. IOSCO, seen as the global standard setter for securities regulation, said ICOs are not standardised ...

Industry veteran to join YBR executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
A non-executive director with Yellow Brick Road is resigning in order to join the company's leadership team. Industry veteran Frank Ganis will take on an advisory role with Yellow Brick Road, stepping down from the board position he accepted in August ...