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Rice Warner strengthens team

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... team. Joining the industry consultant is Andrea McDonnell. She has more than 30 years' of consulting experience in the insurance, superannuation and employee benefits industries. McDonnell will take an active role at Rice Warner in providing advice to ...

Chinese demand requires improved industry practices

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... training export market; 30 to 35% of the accommodation and food services export market; 16 to 19% of the financial and insurance services export market; and 11 to 13% of the construction export market. The projections also suggest that Chinese rebalancing ...

ASIC bans fraudulent broker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... which resulted in her receiving more than $100,000. Farias is a former director of finance broker, Mortgage Finance & Insurance trading as Up N Riding, which organised finance for cars, motorcycles and jet skis on behalf of clients. Farias pleaded guilty ...

Pitcher Partners enters into joint venture

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
Pitcher Partners has entered into a joint venture partnership with a risk specialist. The partnership with MBS Insurance, announced as Pitcher Partners Sydney Insurance Services, will provide specialist protection solutions to meet the bespoke insurance ...

ClearView updates LifeSolutions suite, increases premiums

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... protection super solutions feature will need to speak with their financial adviser. In anticipation of the proposed life insurance reforms, ClearView has removed the policy fee from all cover types. As a result the base premium rates have been adjusted ...

New chair for Supervised Investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... including Crown Resorts, the Sydney Opera House and JP Morgan Advisory Council while also serving as an advisor to Aon Risk Insurance and Samsung.

Deloitte partner moves to Trustee Partners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... director Phillip Kingston. Huppert has more than 25 years' experience in superannuation, wealth management and life insurance. His first 10 years were spent in a variety of actuarial roles at Colonial Mutual before moving on to consulting at Askit Consulting ...

Fears of increased compliance costs misguided

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... about reaching out to every type of consumer to help them with any aspect of their financial life including savings, insurance, Centrelink, superannuation, retirement and investments. Robo-advisers target only those lucky consumers with spare cash to ...

Inappropriate advice drives disputes

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... 2015-16 annual review. Of the 20,298 disputes accepted 1,141 were investments and advice disputes (5%) and 1,095 were life insurance disputes (5%). The review found the most common issues in investment and advice disputes was inappropriate advice (28%) ...

Energy Super selects group insurer

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
$5.9 billion industry fund Energy Super has chosen who will provide its group salary continuance insurance. Effective from 5 September, MLC Life Insurance has won the contract in what the life company has described as "a significant announcement for ...