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Marquee hire for PWC's investment advisory team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... financial services sector having held directorships and senior executive positions in superannuation, asset consulting and insurance companies. He will continue as a director and a member of the audit committee at the Motor Accidents Insurance Board ...

Suncorp tight-lipped on CEO departure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... 2015. Snowball has been chief executive of the Suncorp Group for five and a half years. During that time, Suncorp's life insurance business has struggled to keep up with the challenges that the group insurance industry has faced. The latest statistics ...

Financial services companies owe consumers $15m compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... the FOS said. Unpaid determinations represent about 30% of all determinations in the categories of investments, life insurance and superannuation. Of these 69% relate to disputes in the financial planning sector. The figures represent a 4% increase from ...

Industry insurance report to focus on advice remuneration model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
The final report by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) life insurance working group will largely focus on risk advisers' remuneration structures. The report is expected to be completed before March 31 ...

Centuria partners with Mason Stevens to deliver credit bond

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... expertise of a particular investment manager - in this case Mason Stevens - within the tax-effective structure of an insurance bond. "Partnering with Centuria gives us greater flexibility in what we offer while still enabling us to build the kind of ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
A life insurance policy has more in common with car insurance policies than with an investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Spain). The Fund's investor base is made up of 49 institutional investors of whom the majority are pension funds and insurance companies from a diversified client base across Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East and North America. The fund focuses predominantly ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... national budget. Previously retirees we required to allocate their saving to an annuity, one usually sold by a life insurance company. To allay concerns that unaware consumers may be overwhelmed by complex product information and enticed to select inappropriate ...

AMP recruits NAB executive to head product, strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... 2014 to take over the role of BT Financial Group general manager of superannuation. As part of the superannuation and insurance business, Thomas will be responsible for working on AMP's product solutions. At NAB, Thomas was responsible for NAB Wealth's ...

AIA appoints chief marketing officer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... the appointment comes at an ideal time for the business as it continues its growth trajectory in the Australian life insurance market. "Renae joins us at an exciting time as we seek to build on our position as one of the fastest growing life insurers ...