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Elliott new CEO at ANZ

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
ANZ will ring in the New Year with Shayne Elliott as its chief executive after the bank announced Mike Smith is stepping down in December. Elliott has been ANZ's chief financial officer for more than three years and is considered to be the right person ...

AIA appoints group insurance chief

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
AIA Australia has appointed a new chief group insurance officer. Stephanie Phillips will be responsible for group insurance product distribution. This follows AIA boosting its distribution team in September ahead of the transition to the new Life Insurance ...

Dunfo Capital AFSL canceled

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Dunfo Capital, formerly known as GSM Financial Group, has seen its Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) canceled by ASIC. The financial services company's licence was suspended on February 2015, as ASIC gave Dunfo six months to meet its legal ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Here we go again, folks. It'll be another week of backwards and forwards betting on that never-ending, world-changing question of the "when" of the Fed lift-off. Earlier this year, it was so easy. Lift-off soon chatters - back then June was the month ...

Life risk sales bounce back

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Individual life insurance sales are recovering after two poor quarters, according to DEXX&R research. DEXX&R's life analysis report for the June quarter shows that new business in the sector grew by 15% on the March quarter to $321 million. As reported ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

ASIC bans former NAB-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
ASIC has banned a former adviser from Meritum Financial Group, which is wholly owned by NAB. Alfie Chong worked at Meritum from September 2005 to March 2006, and then July 2007 to June 2014. During that time, ASIC has alleged that Chong engaged in a ...

Mortgage Choice pulls comparator platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
Home loan broker Mortgage Choice has pulled its online comparator platform, helpmechoose.com.au (HMC), after a strategic review. In the company's full year result announcement, chief executive John Flavell said the distribution tool failed to live ...

NZ Super posts 14% returns for FY2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund returned 14.64% and finished the year to June 2015 with funds under management of $29.54 billion. The fund exceeded its two benchmarks, which are its own passive reference portfolio and the Treasury bill, which measures ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Finally, it's here that long speculated week when the Fed decides. It's crunch time all around folks. Each and every FOMC voting member and his dog and cat must be busily crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale ...