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FCA levels insurance field for DIY funds

... should help alleviate the country's insurance gap, now totaling an estimated $1.3 trillion. According to TNS/Rice Walker Actuaries, fewer than 45 per cent of Australians have life insurance cover including many SMSF members. And according to AXA, one ...

Life insurance still the big risk: ING

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2006
According to research conducted by TNS/Rice Walker Actuaries and analysed by ING, underinsurance remains a massive problem with nearly half of all Australian families left critically exposed to the financial consequences of a serious event. ING believes ...

Avoid overly conservative target date investing: RiceWalker

... investments. In their latest Analysis paper called "Investment strategies in Australian Superannuation Funds", RiceWalker Actuaries said "[life-cycle] products are too conservative and they cost members money." However, Rice Walker acknowledge that default ...

ASIC launches TAP calculator

... option, the calculator automatically inserts an appropriate earnings rate for that option, based on advice from our actuaries."

Platypus beefs up analyst team

... services, media and small cap companies sectors. Prior to JF Capital, Pepe worked with William M Mercer and the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Platypus CIO Donald Williams said the company is adding to its research capabilities as it prepares for ...

Life risk advisers endorse Zurich

... individual life risk segment and was the fastest growing insurer with over $100 million in in-force premium according to actuaries firm Plan for Life. As previously reported in Financial Standard, in mid-2006 the group plans to unveil a web-based life ...

Implemented consulting: the devil is in the detail

Rice Walker Actuaries has joined the debate on whether implemented consulting adds value or not. Their answer is "yes" but how the consultants deliver the returns is far from straightforward. In their latest survey on the performance of six asset consultants ...

Anglican Super to join ARF

... some outstanding issues, but was made on the back of a tendering process conducted for Angical super by Rice Walker Actuaries together with the ASA trustees, who is the Anglican Super trustee. ASA Chief Executive Officer, Alan Hall, said the decision ...

Vision return to Russell

... experienced a multitude of actuarial and investment challenges over the years. Our approach is to put forward top tier actuaries and back them with a strong and cohesive team, to provide the intellectual firepower and creative problem solving our clients ...

Hewitt appoints former Watson Wyatt principal

... Bachelor of Economics (major in Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University in NSW and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in Australia.