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Class and Countplus partner

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Software provider Class inked a partnership with accounting and financial advice network Countplus for the provision of self-managed super funds and wealth accounting software. Countplus practices will now have access to centralised billing and supporting ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...

CBA contemplates CommInsure sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
Commonwealth Bank confirmed in its annual results presentation that third parties are discussing an acquisition of the bank's life insurance business. Describing CommInsure as a "strong business with scale, expertise, competitive products and access ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...

Roaring forties produce super member tailwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Superannuation members invested in lifestage funds and aged between 40 and 50 have produced an outstanding 12-month return on retirement savings according to the latest super fund analysis. Rainmaker research shows lifestage (also lifecycle) MySuper ...

CBA senior executives forego bonuses

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Commonwealth Bank chief executive officer Ian Narev and fellow group executives have been stripped of short-term bonuses ahead of tomorrow's financial results. The decision, made by the CBA board in a meeting yesterday, was reached following consideration ...

IOOF grows against the grain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
IOOF credited the onboarding of about 50 advisers last financial year as a driving force behind its 131% increase in advice net flows. In what IOOF described as "counter to industry trend", its growing adviser numbers - including the 33 that joined ...

AIA announces pricing changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
AIA Australia is adjusting its level premiums and stepped life rates as well as offering further discounts for new clients. New members joining the Priority Protection and Priority Protection for Platform Investors products will be affected by the changes. ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
UniSuper, the $60 billion fund for Australia's higher education and research sector, is appointing an active strategy for its once passively managed environmental investment option. Under this important shift management of the Global Environmental Opportunities ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
Ambitious financial services firms are driving Australia's global leadership in the development of blockchain technology, which is already delivering productivity and innovation benefits to the nation's trillion-dollar wealth industry. BNP Paribas Securities ...