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TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
TAL and Zurich provide the best value life insurance products, according to Canstar's 2015 Star Ratings Report. The report found that both insurers "couldn't be separated for top honours in providing outstanding value overall across the life insurance ...

NAB appoints Antares GM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... right candidate we found someone with the right leadership qualities and industry experience. We believe Brendan is the perfect candidate to drive the business forward." Commenting on his appointment, Donohoe said, "I'm extremely excited and honoured ...

Frydenberg relaxed about SMSF borrowing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). "The available statistics on limited recourse borrowing arrangements, while not perfect, tell us that limited recourse borrowing arrangements remain a very small proportion of SMSF assets, and are more often ...

Genesys advice chief goes to NAB

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
NAB Wealth has announced a new general manager for MLC Financial Planning and Garvan Financial Planning. Matthew Fogarty joins NAB from AMP, where he was head of financial planning at Genesys and ipac Equity Partners. He was also a founding partner ...

Mercer launches super data analytics tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... services to help our clients not only weather, but thrive in, this incredibly competitive environment and Mercer Edge is the perfect example of how we've dramatically redesigned the way we work to allow us to focus on activating growth for our clients. ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... the space: "We're looking at all options. Whatever strategy we take, we realise it's early days yet and that there is no perfect model to access SMSFs," Prugue said. He said the industry is carefully watching the steps of the first entrants, notably ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Funny that. Funny that on the same day that RBA Governor Glenn Stevens addressed the Anika Foundation Luncheon in Sydney and told his audience that, "One of the features of much regular discussion of macroeconomic policy, and monetary policy in particular ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
There's a certain sense of insouciance in the financial markets despite the expected unexpected happened - Greece defaulted on its 30 June deadline to repay the a,-1.5 billion it owes the IMF - and depending on what happens on the 5th of this month ...

Don't rage against the machine

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... "A lot of planners have clients that don't have enough funds under management to justify the fees, robo advice is the perfect answer for them and can be incorporated into existing businesses."

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... successful smaller player and we were able to prevail." Kelaher's style when it comes to acquiring companies would make the perfect financial services thriller movie, if there was ever any interest to shoot one. In 2013, Equity Trustees and Perpetual ...