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ASIC finds life claim rates wildly inconsistent

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
ASIC has found a "considerable variation" in denied claims across life insurers, with TPD denial rates as high as 37% in one instance. The regulator has issued its industry review of life insurance claims, and found that while the majority (90%) of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Australia business confidence The latest NAB monthly business survey's business confidence index came in at +6 in September, unchanged from August and is consistent with its +6 long-term average. The business conditions index rose to +8 in September ...

State Street custody boss departs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
State Street's head of global services, Australia and New Zealand has left the company. Paul Khoury has held multiple positions at State Street since 2001, beginning with head of product services, chief operating officer for Australia, head of asset ...

CBA partners to finance clean energy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank has partnered with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to launch a new $100 million energy efficient equipment finance program to provide lower cost finance to Australian businesses and not-for-profits that meet certain ...

Adviser reform about recovering social licence

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Risk advisers must accept controversial reforms are about salvaging consumer trust and should unite to rebuild it rather than drive the industry apart, a panel of insurance industry stakeholders said on day two of the AFA's annual conference. Risk adviser ...

ETF managers now among Australia's fastest growing

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Despite the rise and rise of ETF investing, the sector still accounts for just 6% of the indexing market even though some ETF managers are now among Australia's fastest growing investment houses. According to Rainmaker's June 2016 Roundup industry report ...

New director at QIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Institutional fund manager QIC is welcoming a new director this month. Joining the QIC board for a three-year term is Simone Desmarchelier. She has more than 20 years' experience as an independent adviser in Australia and Europe, specialising in investment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
US GDP The final estimate of US real GDP showed the economy expanding at an annualised rate of 1.4% in the second quarter. This represents an upgrade from the second estimate's 1.1% growth and better than expectations for a 1.3% gain. While personal ...