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Queensland bank sells planning business

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... adviser group Bridges Financial Services. According to Rainmaker Information, the deal will potentially see Bridges climb inside the top 13 planning firms nationally in terms of funds under advice. Bridges had $9.9 billion in FUA as at November 2016 ...

Group insurance critical: FSC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... Australians, many of whom may not have otherwise even thought about getting insurance cover." "We need to preserve insurance inside group superannuation, and we need to preserve the current opt-out mechanism. Without this people would slip through the ...

CommInsure sees adviser revamp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... indemnity income protection policy, updated trauma definitions and a continuation of total and permanent disability (TPD) cover inside super "when cover outside super ends under a split TPD arrangement." CommInsure has also lunched an income protection ...

Shadow Treasurer slams governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... including Bowen. Outside the governance issue, O'Dwyer said superannuation trustees are obliged to balance insurance offerings inside their respective funds as an attempt to heed the erosion of members' balances. This was a firm reminder directed at ...

Super funds lagging on group insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer stressed the importance of "balancing the offering of insurance inside superannuation" in her speech at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference. She noted that there ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... for sure. It's easier to read North Korean supreme leader Kim Jung-on's intentions - world domination - than it is to get inside Donald's head. The unknown causes fear, the same fear that surfaced straight after Brexit. Then again, the "gloom and doom" ...

ANZ improves OneCare for advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... will be available through Secure SuperLink, allowing customers to split up the ownership of their income protection policy inside and outside of super. This initiative is designed to ensure customers can take advantage of super as a funding solution ...

Court blocks IOOF class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
A proposed class action against IOOF has been rejected by the Victorian Supreme Court. Law firm Maurice Blackburn has agreed to orders prohibiting it from proceeding with the proposed law suit, commenced in December 2015 on behalf of tens of thousands ...

Profitable firms leverage from within: Macquarie

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... profitability driver, compared to 32% of high performers. "By doing more with the resources and client base they already have inside their business for growth, high performing firms are focusing on creating value that will both drive referrals from existing ...

MySuper transition costing retail members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... trustees are fulfilling their legal duties to put the interests of members over profits generated by wealth businesses inside the banks," Whiteley said. The issue is not unique to the default sector, according to ISA, with estimates suggesting that a ...