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Actuaries Institute unveils IDII recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
The Actuaries Institute has released sweeping recommendations to help fix the individual disability income insurance (IDII) sector that is currently at "risk of failure". The final recommendations follow a 12 month-review, led by an appointed Actuaries ...

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... scheme could have been $3100 better off than if they had kept their balance intact, new research reveals. The McKell Institute, a thinktank, found that over three million Australians who took advantage of the scheme lost out from the rapid recovery of ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... 2021/22 budget on May 11. But as Ella Fitzgerald sings, "into each life some rain must fall". The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence dropped by 4.8% in May from April. Then again, and as Westpac points out, "It is still the second ...

Budget no cure for hangover from last one

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
An Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees policy expert has laid out just how much work super funds have ahead of them in dealing with the last two federal budgets. AIST head of advocacy Mel Birks updated the Conference of Major Superannuation ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... with experts urging the audience to look at COVID-19 in greater context. Founder and owner of IBISWorld and the Ruthven Institute, Phil Ruthven showed the audience a chart demonstrating the growth of global GDP every two years since 1940. It showed that ...

Boutique hires from Deloitte

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... also spent time as head of research at the Centre for Institutional Investors and was an executive director at the CFA Institute. "I'm excited to be joining Watershed at a time when increasing numbers of advisers are shifting towards the managed account ...

Trustee of the Year announced

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
A well-known financial adviser and superannuation trustee has been named trustee of the year by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Sue Dahn was announced as the recipient this morning at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds ...

Aussies regret ERS withdrawals: AIST poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... during COVID-19 are concerned the decision has made them less financially secure, according to a poll from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. AIST also says one in four non-retired women who participated in the consumer poll did not ...

FASEA approves two degrees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... University has been given FASEA's tick of approval. A graduate diploma of financial planning offered by the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) commencing May 2021 also meets FASEA's requirements. "Advisers who complete these courses of study will ...

COVID support temporarily improves inequality

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... narrowed after a seven-year widening streak but the improved fortunes of the young may be short-lived, says the Actuaries Institute. Calling it "a year like no other", Actuaries Institute's Intergenerational Equity Index says younger Australians will ...