Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 3181 - 3190 of 6136 results for "Australians"

Life insurers admit to misconduct: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... 2010 to September 2014. Summarising life insurers' statements to the Commission, Orr said three topics arose: How Australians buy life insurance Who Australian's buy their life insurance from, and What types of life insurance products Australians ...

Australian retirement outcomes among the best

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... responsible for Australia's high ranking, adding Australia's retirement system was considered among the best in the world. "Australians should be proud of our ranking," Hambly said. However, Hambly said the Royal Commission showed there was still room ...

Super industry welcomes Age Pension backflip

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... Linden said. "Forcing manual workers, in particular, to stay at it until 70 would have been unreasonable". Linden said Australians did not want to work until they dropped, and added ISA hopes the announcement might signal a willingness within the Government ...

Increasing trust not up to APRA: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Regaining the trust of Australians is a responsibility for the financial services industry, not the prudential regulator. Speaking at the Annual Risk Management Association CRO conference in Sydney this week, APRA chairman Wayne Byres said the Royal ...

Philanthropic forces shift asset allocation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... Australia in terms of the proportion of the population volunteering. Additionally, the research finds the proportion of Australians which claim a tax deduction on donations, the best indicator of philanthropy, actually peaked in 1983. McLeod is advocating ...

Gonski asks philanthropists to have more heart

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... Speaking at the Philanthropy Australia National Conference in Melbourne yesterday, Gonski acknowledged there are wealthy Australians who could do better when it comes to philanthropy but there are also those who go too far in the other direction. "Some ...

Trustees caught in a balancing act

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... with our money?" "Can they be trusted to do the right thing?" he asked. What's even sadder, Hodge said, is that Australians generally know how much they have at the end of their working life, but don't know how much they could have had as a result ...

Managed accounts could outstrip super sector on CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... SSGA, Shead's team studies equivalent solutions in rest of the world to look for features that could work well for Australians. "We are not looking at directly issuing superannuation products," he said. "Our role is more of public education and working ...

IFM Investors return fees to investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
The $111 billion institutional fund manager is kicking back a portion of investment fees to its clients, as majority of its mandates outperform. IFM Investors' institutional clients in 19 countries are getting a fee rebate equivalent to 7.5% of ...

AustralianSuper secures WestConnex stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
AustralianSuper's infrastructure investment portfolio now exceeds $13 billion following its joint acquisition of WestConnex in New South Wales. AustralianSuper members are now part owners in a $9.26 billion integrated transport project that will ...