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Insurance through super saves $403 million

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... governments, which absorb the cost of underinsurance through the provision of social security services. What this report shows is that these costs would be substantially higher if millions of people were not covered by insurance through their superannuation ...

High fees deter accountants from using platforms for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... with their self-managed super fund (SMSF) clients, according to Investment Trends research. The 2014 SMSF Accountant report shows that 76% of advisers think is inappropriate for SMSFs to use investment platforms due to costs and fees. However, that number ...

Group risk sales jump by 88.3% in a year

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... experienced a jump of 88.3% in the twelve months to March 2014, the latest Plan for Life insurance risk market inflows report shows. Overall annual risk sales were up by 25.7%, with MetLife leading the pack and reporting a sales increase of 311.9%, off ...

Planners in urgent need of better tech: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... become more efficient, with the average time to produce a full SoA falling from 7.5 hours in 2006 to 6.1 hours. The report shows that 42% of planners have integrated tablets into their business process and 44% have not, but would be interested in doing ...

Infocus and Patron deal puts new group in top ten

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... Crowe Horwath. Infocus and Patron together would be larger than WealthSure, Lifespan or Yellow Brick Road. The same report shows that both firms together would be the tenth largest dealer group in Australia by number of advisers. Infocus managing director ...

Baby boomers account for four in five dollars under advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... how to fund this growing segment through retirement is one of the most fiercely debated in the industry today. The report shows that an increasing number of planners are turning to guaranteed income products such as longevity insurance and annuities. ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... equally ambivalent - there's also the good and the bad. For instance, the Conference Board's latest consumer confidence report shows the percentage of consumers who think that jobs would be hard to get in the next 6 months increased sharply by 1.1 percentage ...

Super is now an economic driver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... System' that will form a major aspect of their submission to the FSI. ISA chief executive David Whiteley said, "The report shows beyond any doubt at all that super has properly 'grown up' into a key participant in the Australian national economic discussion. ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... aside, the headlines also pointed to fresh data on US housing starts for last night's up trade on Wall Street. The report shows that US housing starts dipped by 0.2% to an annualised rate of 907,000 units in February. What's good about this? Last month's ...

MetLife doubled group risk market share in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... MLC annual growth of group risk premium inflows of 38% "mainly due to super fund insurance mandate movements." The report shows that overall group risk premium inflows were up 16.3% in the year to December 2013, which suggests that the sector might be ...