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Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... segment fund members beyond the usual Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer divide. The 2010 Ultimate Superannuation Marketing Metrics study, conducted by Longship Research & Consulting, concluded super funds should be aware of four new key super situational ...

More million dollar members for MDRT

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... top 6 per cent of financial service professionals globally that have met the criteria set out by MDRT, which includes metrics measuring the success of their business. MDRT is an international, independent association of over 31,500 members of the world's ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... strength" as a result of the high cost of bank bailouts and expectations of "severe" deterioration in the government's debt metrics. The IMF and the EU and the World Bank chopped Hungary off the block. They suspended talks with the Hungarian government. ...

US pension plan deficits rise in June

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... forecasting the impact of the latest funded status downturn on future contribution and pension expense along with other business metrics," he said. "Sponsors that choose to reduce risk need to consider the tension that exists between higher ongoing cost ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... financial strength will "continue to weaken over the medium term, as evidenced by ongoing deterioration in the country's debt metrics" and that its growth prospects are ""likely to remain relatively weak unless recent structural reforms bear fruit over ...

AXA and Wealth.net split poses planner risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... competition will be driven by the industry funds, SMSFs and others if the takeover goes ahead. Given this different set of metrics, a combined NAB/AXA would hold 8.5 per cent market share, only slightly more than a combined AMP/AXA at 8.2 per cent, it ...

APRA concedes on life ins data, slaps down friendlies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... data, the regulator APRA has bowed to life insurance industry concerns and agreed to not disclose group wide performance metrics. In November 2009 APRA released a discussion paper proposing that data disclosed to them by insurers and friendly societies ...

NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... competition will be driven by the industry funds, SMSFs and others if the takeover goes ahead. Given this different set of metrics, a combined NAB/AXA would hold 8.5 per cent market share, only slightly more than a combined AMP/AXA at 8.2 per cent, it ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
IFSA has dismissed the APRA 'whole of fund' return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. ...

Not-for-profits still beat retail: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... annum which was two-thirds higher than the 2.4 per cent achieved by retail funds. Funds with the highest return on assets metrics were Goldman Sachs JBWere staff fund with 9.6 per cent, Worsley Alumini with 6.8 per cent, CommBank Officers staff fund ...