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Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... disability income insurance disputes, TAL took the longest at 8.7 months. The inaugural life insurance claims and dispute statistics used 22,000 data points form 20 insurers. Generally, individual advised business showed higher admittance rates than ...

Regulators unite for life insurance transparency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... tool tracking the performance of life insurers. APRA has released its inaugural life insurance claims and disputes statistics publication, which uses more than 22,000 data points from across 20 insurers, collected under APRA's new reporting standard ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may not even need to acquiesce to mounting consensus expectations for at least one interest rate cut this year after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate ...

Choice outweighs balance for women

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... "sadly the fastest growing demographic" among the homeless population in Australia. According to Homelessness Australia statistics, there were more than 116,400 people experiencing homelessness in 2016 - about 42% were female. Sakellaris said the choices ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... chose to major in econometrics - the branch of economics specifically concerned with mathematical methods, particularly statistics. "I really loved numbers but - oddly enough - when I graduated I just couldn't actually envision life as an econometrician," ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... already in effective recession, according to the University of New South Wales. Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics posted a 0.2% growth in gross domestic product for the three months to December 2018. Consumer spending grew at 0.4% in the ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
The Australian economy has slowed - big time. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed that GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter from 0.3% in the previous three-month period, taking the annual growth ...

ASIC releases AFSL approval data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... ASIC considered last financial year, 758 were approved. Close to 200 AFSLs were cancelled in the same period. Latest statistics from ASIC show that of the 758 approvals, 303 comprised of new licences and 455 were licence variations. However, 59% were ...

'Best in show' a no go: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... worthy of note," the report reads. This will likely be helped along by individual member movements, with latest APRA statistics showing the shift in assets across super funds over the last 12 months. Data for the December 2018 quarter shows assets held ...

New reforms to smash major super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... impacted by the changes if legislated. The top 10 is rounded out by MLC Super, Commonwealth Bank and Cbus, based on APRA statistics for the September 2018 quarter. Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin said if successful, the reforms are ...