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Mercer picks Milestone's APRA reporting solution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
Mercer Australia has chosen Milestone Group's pControl Regulatory Oversight service to meet the new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) reporting standards that are part of the Stronger Super reforms. The new reporting standards have seen ...

Life insurance faces worst conditions in decades

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
With shareholder returns in free fall, the life insurance industry is facing its worst conditions in decades, an Ernst & Young Australia (EY) analysis of the full year banking results found. The report noted how disability claims are rising "well beyond ...

Advisers coming round to social media

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Financial advisers are increasingly using social media to interact with their clients, according to a report commissioned by Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich). The survey, conducted by Beaton Research, found that 34.5% of advisers are actively ...

Advisers battle to reconnect with disengaged clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
Financial planners are fishing for new clients among Australians who have never sought advice before, but technology could help them reconnect with disengaged clients already in their practices. "There are very few practices that don't have a number ...

Baird proposes tax changes for NSW infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
New South Wales Treasurer Mike Baird has proposed a new taxation practice that would direct company tax revenue on infrastructure back to state governments. The proposal is part of the NSW Government's policy of harnessing superannuation and other institutional ...

Investment still lagging despite confidence surge: RBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
The surge in consumer and business confidence in the last two months is yet reap investment rewards, with the business community remaining subdued, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens said this morning. Speaking at the Citi Investment ...

Future Fund hands confidential documents to AustralianSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
The Future Fund has provided AustralianSuper with confidential documents containing details of the acquisition of a stake in Perth Airport. "The Future Fund has voluntarily provided a small number of confidential documents to assist in bringing the ...

Former BlackRock COO joins J.P. Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
J.P. Morgan has appointed BlackRock chief operating officer Henry Capra as its new head of custody and funds services for Australia and New Zealand. Capra will replace Mark Kelley, who has held the role since December 2011. Kelley will move into a full ...

Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
A major power shift from intermediaries such as fund managers and investment banks to fiduciaries including Australian superannuation funds is gathering pace in the global financial services sector, according to the CFA Institute's Asia Pacific managing ...

Future Fund boosts exposure to global equities, infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The Future Fund has increased its exposure to infrastructure and global equities in both developed and emerging markets and, at the same time, it has reduced its exposure to debt securities and alternatives. "Across economies, policy efforts to lift ...