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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 ...

Verity and newfocus unveil marketing benchmarking study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... Effectively, I had to try to solve the puzzle using only half the pieces. "Secondly, I was relying on one or two key marketing metrics, like Net Promoter Score and member satisfaction, each taken at different points in time, to guide my decision-making," ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... consumption of a real estate portfolio is the key first step to making properties more efficient, and the current lack of metrics indicates that we are standing just at the beginning of the road to energy efficiency in the commercial real estate sector," ...

Advisers prepare for spike in insurance sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... development and support; education and support and image and reputation. They were also rated on more than 60 individual service metrics by advisers who write business with them. The research covered all the major life companies including AIA, AMP, Asteron ...

Cooper stalls APRA data review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... final report in mid-2010. The APRA review, whose initiatives already include publication of fund level 'return of assets' metrics and disclosure of detailed demographic data for each fund, has proven to be controversial among wealth managers who argued ...