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AIA renews commitment with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... targeted intervention, support and assistance for members suffering from mental health issues. Mental illness is one of the top three claims in the life insurance industry, estimated to cost around $160 million dollars a year in income protection and ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
Assets managed by the top 25 alternative investment managers in Australia has grown to more than US$250 billion ($338 billion), according to the latest survey by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Macquarie in particular has benefitted from a shift ...

Industry funds embrace board independence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Top industry funds have embraced the proposal to introduce a third of independent directors to their boards and see it as an opportunity to add skills and improve governance. Despite opposition from Industry Super Australia (ISA), at least three of ...

Banks need to increase capital ratios: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... major banks will need to increase capital adequacy ratios by at least 200 basis points to be comfortably positioned in the top quartile of international peers. In response to a recommendation of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) that bank capital ratios ...

Top industry super funds align with Empirics

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
Empirics will provide its MarketSuite data analytics program to four of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds who manage more than four million member accounts. AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and Hostplus are joining Empirics who will offer ...

Telstra Super addressing younger base

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... wants to access super online, by phone and mobile - as you would expect them to - we've got to respond to that. This is on top of that continuing, important pre-retirement phase where people are getting in to a planning phase in that last five to ten ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... referendum which the latest opinion polls say is too close to call. Outside the eurozone, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies fell 0.67 per cent to end the day at 6,585.78 points. The euro dropped below $US1.10 earlier before recovering ...

Aged care advice enquiries skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... deposit of $500,000. "The government does provide subsidies to approved age care providers, but there's a lot of costs on top of that as well. It's extremely expensive, so there are a lot of clients coming in for the advice they need to maximise their ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... gained 2.21 per cent, while the Athens stock markets remained shut. Outside the eurozone, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 1.34 per cent to end the day at 6,608.59 points. In foreign exchange, the euro slid to $US1.1084 from $US1.1139 ...

Hedge fund returns down 10% in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
Top hedge funds in Australia averaged 15.6% returns in 2014, but the overall sector delivered 10% less than the previous year. This is according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) 2014 hedge funds survey, which examined 27 ...