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Fee models an art, not a science

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... advisers to re-explore the value they provide to clients and "why this crucial piece of the advice jigsaw is an art and not a science." "Today's insurance adviser must be anything from coach, counsellor and educator through to technical specialist, key ...

ASIC adds life insurance to school curriculums

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... insurance - an area that needs greater focus, he said. The objective is to embed financial literacy elements into maths, science, economics and so on, and not set it up as a separate subject across 10,000 schools nationwide, he said. "We've trained ...

Industry super fund grows ESG team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... and members of the investment and strategy teams. The climate expert will ideally have qualifications in environmental science or related fields and experience in the environmental movement. Separately, the super fund with about $8.8 billion in funds ...

MLC Life adapts to meet shifting expectations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... and advisers is a new Bancassurance, Digital and Direct leadership team comprising life insurance and digital and data science professional appointed earlier this year. "Our industry has a long way to go to improve the digital experience of customers. ...

Super funds and CEFC join investment forces

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... ecosystem, including incubators, university programs and angel groups. The Seed Fund is also registered with Innovation and Science Australia as an early stage venture capital partnership providing investors with tax-free returns. The fund was launched ...

Australia ranks fifth for financial literacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
Australia's school education performance against global benchmarks in mathematics, reading and science may be falling but their financial literacy performance is strongly above average, ranking fifth from 15 countries. According to a statement released ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
The world's largest fund manager has shifted the goal posts for active equity investment, announcing it will take the enormous step of combining humans and machines for stock selection. The question is what scale does this new man and machine combination ...

Family office manager expands

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... BlueSky Alternative Investments for two years. Toohey is a co-founder and former chief investment officer of Investment Science Asset Management where he designed and managed the quantitative component of a futures hedge fund. His previous experience ...

BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... performance to our clients," BlackRock global head of active equities Mark Wiseman said. The firm is investing further in data science to provide investable insights and dividing its active equity product offerings into four product ranges, including ...

Instreet launches VC fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... investors to take advantage of tax incentives provided as part of the Australian Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, which aims to support entrepreneurship," Instreet managing director George Lucas said. Investors may receive a tax offset ...