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Insto investors confused by environmental equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
Impax Asset Management executive believes its offering has suffered in Australia due to a lack of understanding around which asset class environmental equities fit into. Speaking to Financial Standard, managing director of listed equities for Impax ...

Industry fund appoints new group insurer, ups indirect fee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... managing director Damien Mu said: "We are excited to have established a new partnership with Intrust Super, whose people have a focus and passion to continually deliver great outcomes for their members." "The partnership will allow us to protect and ...

Risk advisers a dying breed: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
The proportion of financial advisers specialising in life insurance has more than halved in the last five years, according to Investment Trends research. In its 2019 Planner Risk Report released today, Investment Trends revealed just 15% of advisers ...

Many benefits to going your own way: CMC Markets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... explained CMC Markets wants to be able to see that advisers are behaving ethically at all times, maintaining a customer focus and not taking part in any price gouging or churning. "We want to be the trusted adviser to the advisers - we want to see the ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... measures its ESG initiatives against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The report is wide-ranging, and does not only focus on NAB's environmental sustainability measures but on social and governance issues including its whistleblower policy and customer ...

ASIC eyes claims handling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... which found significant, industry wide problems with product design and claims handling the regulator has reaffirmed its focus on the issue. On ASIC's latest podcast senior executive leader of ASIC's Insurers team, Emma Curtis, explained that since ...

APRA to take transparent approach

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
APRA's new approach to governance, culture, remuneration and accountability will see the prudential regulator focus on strengthening, sharpening and sharing. The regulator today released an information paper on its "more intensive" regulatory approach ...

Value facing unprecedented rally: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
Value stocks are headed towards an "unprecedented" boom, according to Schroders UK fund manager Simon Adler. Adler said part of the reason value stocks deserve more attention is because growth has been doing so well. "The last 10 years has been the ...

Deloitte, TAL partner on AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... and voice analytics is an area of high potential. "While there are numerous potential ways to leverage AI, TAL chose to focus firstly on those that have significant customer benefit - making sure customers are sold the right products for their needs ...

Total Financial Solutions to shutter next year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
CountPlus has announced an early 2020 end date for the Total Financial Solutions (TFS) dealer group. The plan was confirmed today at CountPlus' annual general meeting. TFS currently has around 81 financial advisers on staff, with CountPlus saying 62 ...