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MLC Life welcomes board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The $500 million outlay to improve systems and technology at MLC Life Insurance is being supported with the appointment of a new board member. MLC Life Insurance recently welcomed Jacqueline Korhonen as an independent non-executive director. She has ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
The Productivity Commission has taken a deeper dive into insurance inside superannuation and cast doubt into the sector's ability to help the Government alleviate social security payments. Releasing a supplementary paper to its May draft report ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Spend, spend, spend appears to be this year's overriding mantra of the US consumer. The slow start in the first quarter of 2018 had been replaced by back-to-back quarters of exceptionally strong contributions to overall growth from American household ...

SMSFs most affordable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... The average MySuper total expense ratio (TER) currently sits at 1.20%, meaning for every $100,000 in super there's an outlay of about $1200 in fees.

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
Houston, we're on target. The US Income and Outlays account released last Friday showed that US inflation as measured by the US Federal Reserve's favoured gauge - the core PCE price index - is now smack bang where the Fed wants it, rising by ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Treasurer Scott Morrison, in his third Commonwealth Budget reports that government receipts rising 8.6% during 2017-18, compared to expenditure rising 4.7%, leaves Australia with an annual deficit of $18.2 billion and on its way to a modest $2.2 billion ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Treasurer Scott Morrison's expansionary second budget, bankrolled by government receipts rising more than 6% per annum compared to expenditure rising by 4% per annum, sets Australia on the road towards a surplus by 2020 but one supported by record Commonwealth ...

Panorama fortifies BTFG adviser market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
BT Financial Group's mammoth financial outlay in upgrading its wealth management platform will generate cost savings of $100 million per year with benefits for financial advisers and investors. BTFG head of product development Anil Sagaram said it's ...

Open data would protect advice industry: Adviser Ratings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... profession and what makes an industry; if a housecleaner doesn't clean your house well the impact to you might be a $50 outlay, but if your financial adviser doesn't do the best they can for you the impact would be far more detrimental," Woods said. ...

Consumer-powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... the 2.5% growth in personal consumption contributing 170 basis points to that growth. The just-released personal income & outlay account shows personal consumption increased by 0.5% in the month of December as expected but represented an acceleration ...