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CommInsure cleared of systemic problems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... issues when it comes to claims handling processes. The Deloitte report states that no systemic issues related to historically declined claims were identified, nor was there "any evidence that the current and planned improvements to the claims handling ...

Bonds aiding not-for-profit investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... seek to make returns on donations in the face of low interest rates. The combination of scarce donor capital and historically low rates has placed NFP trustees and treasury managers under growing pressure to produce better returns, according to FIIG ...

Future Fund cautious on risk and return

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... let's hope that happens. If it does happen, it won't happen tomorrow. "As we look around the world there are still historically low interest rates. Some important centres in the world are more or less in negative territory. We do think on balance it's ...

Non-aligned advisers gifted growth opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
Opportunities for non-aligned financial advisers to provide quality advice are growing as the industry's historically bad behaviour continues to repeat itself. That is the view of the 2016 AFA Practice of the Year Award winner Sam Henderson. Speaking ...

Do super funds hold AAA rating key?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... business investment, he said. "If there isn't innovation, the incentive to put in new capital falls. So you've had historically low business investment in all the developed countries and that's reducing demand for capital. We've had a very big fall in ...

Australian private equity driving M&A

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... pressure causing super funds to seek direct access to businesses, and factors such as the lower Australian dollar and historically low interest rates driving competition for assets. "The Australian dollar remains lower relative to many other major currencies ...

Ageing societies threaten to undermine global economy

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... government services such as healthcare, infrastructure and education," he said. The other major issue, which he said was historically unprecedented on a global scale, is the gradual retraction in growth of the labour force - in fact, highly aged population ...

Netwealth partners for new private label

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... director Matt Heine said Netwealth has been working with Cardena for some time and are pleased with the offering. "Historically the implementation of these models could not have been achieved under a traditional advice framework where SOA's and ROA's ...

How advisers are managing US election concerns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... global anxieties about China, or the tragic events that followed the 2011 earthquake in Japan, U.S. markets have historically taken their long-term marching orders from U.S. fundamentals," he said. "For 240 years it's been a terrible mistake to bet against ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... the markets will move on to a different type of thinking about what it means than they have done so far," he said. Historically, in the first quarter after the election, the S&P 500 had dropped an average of 7.6% pa, an ETF Securities analysis found. ...