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Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... than one million copies. Bogle served on the boards of various corporations - including The General Accident Group of Insurance Companies and Meritor Financial Group - and held honorary doctorate degrees from various universities, including his alma ...

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 ...

Willis Re refreshes executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... launched the Sydney office in 2015. Phillipsz was appointed the co-head of Asia Pacific in 2015 and has 20 years of insurance-focused investment banking experience spread across Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. The business is also moving its international ...

ASIC suspends online broker AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... addition to ensuring Halifax continues have arrangements for compensating retail clients and to hold professional indemnity insurance cover. Halifax can request the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to review ASIC's decision. Ferrier Hodgson was appointed ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... support and information for seniors around dealing with Centrelink, Age Pension eligibility, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, general healthcare, aged care and elder financial abuse. According to SCOA's 2018 annual report, the decline in ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... institutional investors had opted for ETFs in their portfolio recently, with boutique fund managers, family offices and insurance companies all coming aboard the ETF wagon. A Vanguard spokesperson said institutional investors were typically opting for ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission is calling for an independent public inquiry into group insurance and floated the possibility of tougher regulation that includes sharper ASIC oversight, among other recommendations. Recommendation 18 in the Productivity ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... be measured. Consideration of a fund's track record on fees, governance and innovations, and how well its group insurance offering caters to new members of all occupations would also be required, the report said. "The age old adage that past performance ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... comfortable retirement," O'Neil said. "If the government was really concerned about ensuring that all workers had access to insurance and other products through super they would support the ALP amendments to the My Super bill currently before the par ...

Best-in-show splits industry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... disadvantage members in these funds. "Meanwhile, millions of Australians will be left to languish in poorly-performing bank and insurance owned funds that are outside the default system." The Commission said the shortlist shouldn't prevent members ...