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Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... insurance classes. Google's interest in car insurance has in the past been limited to its acquisition of the UK insurance comparator website Beat That Quote in 2012 which it has transformed into Google Compare, but Forrester Research analyst Ellen Carney ...

Certified financial planners report higher profitability

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... to increase the number of CFP advisers during the next 12 months. The study was conducted by independent researchers Comparator and the results were released by the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), owner of the international CFPA(R) Certification ...

TAL increases focus on direct insurance with buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... direct insurance market after acquiring the remaining 90% shares that it didn't already own of online life insurance comparator Lifebroker business. Lifebroker provides consumers choice and comparison of life insurance products from a range of different ...

Lonsec expands research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... initiated the transition to specialist data and analytical tools provider Financial Express and launched the Lonsec super comparator tool.

Online tool for evaluating super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... Investment research provider Lonsec, in partnership with a superannuation research company, today released the Lonsec super comparator, an online tool that allows advisers to easily compare all types of superannuation offerings. The first offering from ...

Changes sent packing

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... segments have been treated separately by insurers. But new dynamics in the market, including consumers' increased use of comparator websites and more advisers writing risk in superannuation - due to lower premiums and cash flow advantages - had brought ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten says Australia is not in the same boat as Europe and is better placed to deal with another worldwide recession. The World Bank yesterday declared the global economy had entered a "dangerous period", warning it could ...

SMSFs feeling the age gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... numbers, heard delegates at a Women in Super event yesterday. Speaking at the event, Sarah Brennan, managing partner of Comparator Business Benchmarking, explained to delegates about the growth of the SMSF industry based on her data and spoke of the ...

MLC advisers top benchmarking survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... advisers earn more than their adviser peers for the third consecutive year, a survey shows. The data, sourced from the Comparator Annual Benchmarking Study for Financial Planning Businesses 2010, found that Godfrey Pembroke advisers ranked first within ...

Banking on a super precedent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... are hardly going to be a problem. The second is that if mortgage providers are to be required to present a consumer comparator fact sheet to customers when they sign up and want to swap mortgages, why would they not require this when a consumer joins ...