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Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets again Tuesday next week and no one expects it to raise or lower interest rates after the 6 June soiree. The Australian central bank is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. It's caught between ...

ASIC consults on new statement of advice

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
ASIC is now consulting with the financial services industry on a new example statement of advice for life insurance. The regulator's latest consultation paper seeks feedback on the new example Statement of Advice (SOA) and related updates to the guidance ...

IRESS partnership aids RG 97 compliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
Financial technology provider IRESS announced a partnership that will help clients analyse trades efficiently and become more RG 97 compliant. Clients of both IRESS and global financial technology company ITG will benefit from a faster and more comprehensive ...

BGL partners with Link for automation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
BGL Corporate Solutions is partnering with Link Market Services to release the first SMSF administration software that automatically reconciles listed security holding balances with share registries. The Simple Fund 360 software will use registry data ...

Zurich revamps life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
Zurich is offering "generous" rate reductions and discounts on a number of its life insurance products in a major upgrade since acquiring Macquarie Life. The insurer announced it will reduce rates for term, and total and permanent disablement (TPD) ...

TelstraSuper commits to innovation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
TelstraSuper is betting on disruptive technology being developed at Australian and global universities after partnering with intellectual property commercialisation company IP Group. Australia's largest corporate superannuation fund has placed $35 million ...

MLC launches claims processing platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
MLC Life Insurance launched a platform that it believes will process claims more efficiently. The life insurer has partnered with global claim management software provider ClaimVantage in an attempt to make claims quicker and simpler. MLC Life Insurance ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
In its 'Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2017', released on the 10th of May, the BOJ no longer spoke of an economic "recovery", instead it talked about an economic "expansion" - the most optimistic the BOJ had been ...

Spreads reduced in bond trading facility

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
Multi-asset trading and investment specialist Saxo Capital Markets is reducing spreads and increasing execution times for fixed income securities. The move comes six months after the launch of the firm's digital bond trading solution which covers more ...

Advice industry must not rest on laurels: Diamantidis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
The financial advice industry has resigned itself to underperforming and allowed the public to relegate financial matters. Caboodle Financial Services' Peita Diamantidis believes the financial advice industry is failing for having only engaged 20% of ...