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AZ NGA snaps up eighteenth firm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... in 1989 and offers a full suite of advisory services to clients including wealth accumulation, retirement planning, insurance and strategic financial planning advice. On-Track is responsible for about $170 million of client funds and has a team of nine ...

ASIC bans Brisbane life adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
ASIC has banned a Brisbane based life insurance financial adviser from providing financial services for five years after an investigation found he had failed to comply with several financial services laws. Former authorised representative of Affinia ...

ANZ mulls selling wealth business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... the best; where we can win and have a competitive advantage. And we don't think that is in the manufacturing of life insurance products." ANZ reported a statutory after-tax profit of $5.7 billion in the year to 30 September 2016, down 24% on the previous ...

Cromwell introduces Euro property fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... Cities Income Fund. The fund, which received €205 million in seed capital from Denmark's largest privately owned life insurance company PFA Pension, is a long-term, open-ended core fund with an initial investment goal of €2 billion in gross asset ...

New life insurance standards for super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
Superannuation trustees and life insurers will be bound by new life insurance standards emerging from an industry leadership group aiming to benchmark best practice. The Superannuation Industry Working Group is a new collaboration between the Australian ...

Rainmaker Information selected by CANSTAR

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... individual investment options and more than 2500 individual fee packages. Among Rainmaker's database are 16,482 individual insurance policy options, 51 extra benefits and services categories and more than 24 years of historical fund performance data. ...

APRA marks New Year priorities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... report outlines risks in the housing market, the funding profile of the banking system, poor experience in some areas of insurance and the need for stronger governance and transparency in the superannuation industry as areas of concern. It also highlights ...

AMP implements significant insurance changes

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
Consistent deterioration to the insurance sector has had a significant impact on the AMP wealth protection business and has led to an overhaul of the business. In a bid to address the market condition for wealth protection in Australia, AMP announced ...

Challenger reveals key annuity relationships

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... through AMP's investment and administration platforms and will also be available through Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life Insurance Company (MS Private) - a provider of Australian dollar annuity and life insurance products in Japan. Scheduled to launch in ...

NobleOak Life offerings recognised for excellence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
The 2016 Direct Life Insurance Excellence Awards have been presented in Sydney by Strategic Insight, the research house formerly known as Plan for Life. NobleOak Life took home the overall Direct Life Insurance Excellence Award, also receiving the TPD ...