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Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... which now has 300,000 members - can be put down to a couple of key drivers. "Recommendations or conversations amongst friends are one of the things that drives engagement with or activation of this product," Englund said. "[What] has really driven success ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... leaving his job and choosing to do something completely different. "I was 23 or 24 and my mindset was different from my friends who went to uni. When they finished, they didn't have any money and they couldn't wait to get a job. But I had been getting ...

Solid growth in ING DIRECT super business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... the Net Promoter Score, which scores banks on the number of customers who are likely to recommend the bank to family and friends.

Gen Y saving habits reveal advice opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... McAweeney said, adding that it is, therefore, little wonder they are feeling stressed. Almost a quarter (24%) used family, friends or colleagues for financial advice in 2014, compared to 16% of total respondents. "It's encouraging to see that Gen Ys ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... spending (borrowing) that, in turn, raises borrowing costs. But "crowding in"? Again, what the fudge is that? This, my friends, is what European Commission (EC) president Jean-Claude Juncker calls the EC's fresh initiative to breathe life into the region's ...

Insurance industry has trust issues

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... customers surveyed globally said that they were either likely or very likely to recommend their insurance provider to friends and relatives, yet 38% of that group of advocates also reported having closed policies or switched providers within the previous ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... university at that time," she says, "it was difficult to get a job. I remember sending out hundreds of letters with my friends at university. It was such a hard time to be looking for a job." She considers herself lucky to have entered the Bankers Trust ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is putting social front and centre at the AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference with a competition for "best" tweeters. Conference delegates have the chance to win "best tweet of the day" and "best tweet of ...

FEATURE: Big data and financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
It has changed the way friends interact with each other, the way people think and express themselves and, above everything, it has changed the way people buy. Consumers want to be able to buy anything, at any time, through any device. Companies in all ...

Two-fifths forced into retirement before financially ready

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... making with around 40% of both retirees and pre-retirees ranking them in their top two influencers. Accountants, family, friends and colleagues were other strong influencers and online tools and calculators scored relatively strongly with 15% of pre-retirees ...