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Australians ill prepared for financial future

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... one in 10 people aged 40 to 49 said they had a comprehensive financial plan in place for their property, investments, insurance, savings and budget." Head of alliance and distribution at Bridges Financial Services, Jason Kriss, said few young people ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... financial planning director departing after 41 years at the company and BT Financial Group hiring a new head of general insurance. Financial planning director to leave AMP - Steve Helmich will leave AMP to pursue other opportunities in the industry. ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... (AUM) at the end of March 2015. It is equivalent to about 3% of global AUM and superannuation funds and funds of life insurance corporations accounted for about 70% of AUM. A third paper, Potential Growth and Rebalancing in China, suggests much of China's ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... with that. "Just because your house did not burn down, it doesn't mean it was wrong to take out buildings and contents insurance. "There are not many opportunities to deploy new capital so we are keeping it very simple. Markets are showing a real lack ...

Millennial women rejecting insurance jobs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
Insurance is the least attractive financial services employment sector for women born between 1980 and 1995, according to PwC research. PwC's report, "Female millennials in financial services: strategies for a new era of talent", is based on a global ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... are causing a rethink of how assets are held for people who are close to receiving the health card. "Money held in an insurance bond does not generate assessable income and therefore does not contribute income to the assessable amount of those applying ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... major economies of Asia feature some of the most restrictive regulatory and legal regimes in both commercial banking and insurance compared to OECD nations. The report says this is a contrast with Australia, one of the most open economies in the Asia-Pacific ...

BTFG hires head of general insurance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
BT Financial Group (BTFG) has appointed a senior executive from Suncorp to join its insurance and investments business. Gerard McDermott has been named head of general insurance in the division. He joins from Suncorp where he was most recently executive ...

Fat Prophets partners with OneVue

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... investors to access a suite of model portfolios, investment options, self-managed super administration services and insurance products. This follows OneVue's partnership with News Corp to release the brightday digital direct service in January. As reported ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... is not going to cause the eurozone to collapse," he told AAP. Financial stocks were giving the market a boost, with Insurance Australia Group leaping up on the news that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying a $500 million stake in ...