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Investment income fuels life insurance sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
Life insurance industry figures released today by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) paint a picture of a robust industry albeit one preparing for some adjustment. In its June 2013 life insurance statistics report the regulator has ...

Twitter usage on the rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Social media is now used by 72% of online adults in the US and Twitter usage has almost doubled, with usage among young people growing the fastest. The results are part of the latest research to come out of US Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Imposed quotas are much less likely to advance the cause of workplace gender equality than super funds exerting their considerable soft power to influence the industry, companies in which they invest and service providers. Helen Conway, director of ...

Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
In a possible warning of political arguments Australia may confront in coming decades when the national budget faces mounting aged care and pension costs, a leading UK government minister has proposed cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the ...

Strong returns put UniSuper back in the black

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
Strong investment returns from rebounding capital markets have strengthened UniSuper's balance sheet sufficiently to enable the fund trustee board to announce they no longer need to consider reducing members' benefits to maintain the fund's solvency. ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Super funds on track to deliver average returns for 2012-13 of 15%, the third best in the past 26 years, demonstrate how fund members who kept their nerve after the GFC are now reaping the benefits. The result is based on preliminary analysis of Rainmaker's ...

Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
While there are concerns Facebook use in Australia may be slipping, the number of Australians using the social media platform actually jumped 2.75% in May to reach 12.2 million. LinkedIn was ranked a distant second with 3.7 million users and Twitter ...

Sovereign wealth funds climb to US$5.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Sovereign wealth funds have reached an aggregate US$5.5 trillion at June 2013, up 9.1% over the past 12 months, according to the SWF Institute. The SWF Institute also reported that SWF assets are up 44% since the global financial crisis (GFC) and that ...

Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
The coalition has signalled that if it wins the 2013 federal election it will institute major reforms regarding how super funds appoint trustees while expecting funds to speed up how they pass on scale fee benefits. Paul Fletcher the federal member ...

Banks missing super cross-selling opportunities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
Only one in 10 in bank customers have their personal super with their bank, showing that banks are missing a huge cross-selling opportunity. Roy Morgan Research has just released a report that shows that only than 10.4% of the personal customers of ...