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SimpleWRAP launches $1500 platform pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... Krystyna Weston, director of simpleWRAP, said the platform would offer savings for those with larger account balances both inside and outside super. "It was time to revolutionise platform pricing, and we believe this is a much cleaner, fairer model with ...

Australian Unity supporting advisers with appointment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... director and national sales manager at Audit Insurance Solutions. "He [Cockle] knows the boutique financial planning sector inside out and this will be especially important as FOFA carves two clear market segments - licensees whose primary revenue derives ...

Advisers and super key to underinsurance: AFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The AFA claims industry research validates its stance that the ban of commissions inside super will negatively impact consumers but the super and advice industries can work together against underinsurance. In the third tranche of research from the Association ...

Perpetual chief ushers in new era

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... need dynamic management, the right management to ensure growth activity receives right focus. We need clear communication inside and outside the business. We need discipline around cash flow, invest efficiently to retain business, progressively reduce ...

Macquarie breathes new Life into insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... which was launched in 2005. As a result, advisers will find it easier to structure risk cover for clients when they need it inside and outside of superannuation, Macquarie said. FutureWise offers disability income, life and TPD cover that will now be ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... "widespread and repeated insider trading at several hedge funds" said one court document, which alleged that the sources of inside information included an executive at IBM, a director at Intel Corporation and several other executives at listed companies. ...

Dealer groups miss commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... of September 2010, said commissions had a valid and important role to play. "Applying a ban on commissions for insurance inside super will have many consequences, not least of which could be a reduction in the number of Australians who have adequate ...

New super products and mergers may result - insurers

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... the Future of Financial Advice reforms which banned all commissions on risk insurance for both individual and group risk inside superannuation and placed a broad ban on volume-based payments. The banning of commissions both inside MySuper and in a choice ...

SPAA positive but fears bad practice post FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... banning of risk commissions may shift market. The association has concerns about dealing with risk commissions separately inside and outside of super while also unhappy with the opt-in arrangement. "SPAA is very concerned that the commission ban on insurance ...

Great Southern case rages on

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... the start of what will be a very interesting process of investors finally being told the full story on what was going on inside Great Southern," said a spokesperson for M+K. In October last year, around 2,000 Great Southern investors launched a class ...