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Zurich helps advisers quantify cost of care

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 OCT 2018
... actual cost of illness. The report takes a deep dive into 67 conditions affecting 10 different body parts, ranging from the heart and arteries to cancer and mental health. The average lifetime cost of cancer, for example, is $126,280 for individuals ...

FSU, FSC respond to interim report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... financial services industry must be urgently transformed to ensure organisations put the best interests of consumers at the heart of what they do. "For consumers, interacting with banking and financial services is not voluntary. In a compulsory system ...

Super funds call for grandfathering ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... issues immediately to rebuild trust and faith in the system. "Addressing community standards and expectations is at the heart of engendering confidence in the system. Perceived and actual conflicts of interest, if not managed appropriately, do the opposite," ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... manager Helen Troup accepted CBA misled the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in the case of one claimant who suffered from a heart attack. It also made inappropriate challenges to its jurisdiction and failed to provide information requested that breached ...

CommInsure misled FOS: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... executive general manager Helen Troup representing the group. A customer took out a policy with CommInsure that covered heart attacks and coronary artery angioplasty. Subsequently in early 2014, the customer suffered heart problems and had to undergo ...

Pinnacle expands distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... multi-affiliate model both domestically and offshore will make him a significant asset to our team," Chambers said. "The heart of Pinnacle's success today is the powerful marriage of world-class investment firms with a deep bench of talented, highly ...

Increasing trust not up to APRA: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... a miscalculation of the risk and return trade-off in the way business has been conducted in financial services is at the heart of the issues discussed at the Royal Commission, adding reputation and trust had been squandered due to undervaluation in those ...

Gonski asks philanthropists to have more heart

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
ANZ chairman David Gonski believes Australian philanthropists must give with more rigour as assets that have taken years to accumulate are too often spent on a whim. Speaking at the Philanthropy Australia National Conference in Melbourne yesterday ...

No time for complacency: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... this morning, the Government confirmed it will not raise the retirement age to 70. "Both of these policies have been at the heart of AIST advocacy for many years now," Scheerlinck said. "We are relieved to see some common sense finally coming to the ...

Philanthropists must move beyond the hierarchy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... more than 500 delegates, Philanthropy Australia chief executive Sarah Davies said managing the trade-off between head and heart is a never-ending balancing act. The conference theme in 2018 is "Purpose: Is it enough?" "Passion doesn't always serve purpose. ...