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Insurers held to account with new FSC code

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
The Financial Services Council rolled out its Life Insurance Code of Practice, along with a new set of standardised medical definitions, on July 1. The new definitions for cancer, heart attack and stroke in trauma and critical illness policies were ...

Advice practices pass health check

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Financial advice firms are better equipped to face future challenges following an industry shift from passive to actively managed businesses. This is one of several findings from a joint report released by Zurich and the Beddoes Institute, which goes ...

Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Governance almost totally eclipses environmental and social factors when it comes to stakeholder concern, a report by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has shown. The report showed that stakeholders with voting rights are overwhelmingly concerned with ...

Real estate better than bonds: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Investors starved of income should look to core real estate as an alternative to more expensive looking asset classes, according to UBS's Elisabeth Troni. In the face of continued investment uncertainty, the global real estate strategist says that there ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
It could take years before NAB's 'worthless' UK banking business is restored to anything approaching a reasonable sale price. That is according to Elio D'Amato, chief executive of stock market solutions provider Lincoln Indicators. The underperformance ...

BT earnings up despite floods

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
BT Financial Group saw revenues and earnings rise in the first quarter of 2011 despite an increase in insurance payouts brought on by the recent floods, which have so far cost Westpac $50 million. Updating the market on its overall performance over ...

Sovereign keeps overweight to distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Alternatives expert Sovereign Investment Research is recommending its superannuation clients remain overweight to specific distressed debt strategies ahead of expected defaults from small US-based companies. Ray King, managing director at Sovereign ...

McAlpine leaves CBUS for Health Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
The $7 billion industry super fund Health Super has appointed Megan McAlpine to the role of marketing manager. McAlpine joined Health Super earlier this week. The position has been vacant for a number of months following Sonia Trone's departure on maternity ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

No to fad funds, yes to expertise: InvestorWeb

InvestorWeb research has highlighted the country's long history of 'fad funds' to remind investors that, while investment themes are important, the fund manager's track record is still king. The group has recently completed its 2006 Global Specialist ...