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Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... health as soon as possible. Ian Laughlin, convenor of the Actuaries Institute's Disability Insurance Taskforce said modern life insurance provides valuable financial benefits for people who can't earn an income due to injury or sickness. "Australia has ...

AMP adds competitors to platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... advisers and super and pension clients of MyNorth, North, Summit, ipac iAccess and Generations. It comes as Plan For Life Actuaries revealed life insurance risk premium inflows and sales ended 2019 down significantly. The entire life insurance sector ...

Masterfunds up $26 billion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... final quarter of 2019 saw Australian funds under management on platforms jump by $26 billion. According to Plan For Life Actuaries, masterfunds ended the year to 30 September 2019 up 3% - amounting to $26 billion. Total FUM for masterfunds now stands ...

$3.3 billion fall in retail managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... out of retail funds to First State Super has had a significant impact on the retail market, according to Plan For Life Actuaries. Plan For Life revealed overall retail managed funds at the end of the September 2019 quarter totalled $976.1 billion, up ...

Super funds set to dominate ASX: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... Consultants principal Diane Somerville warned the firm's analysis showed that regardless of whether improvements in average life expectancies continued or slowed down, the old age dependency ratio was projected to worsen beyond the next 20 years, which ...

Actuaries develop retiree rule of thumb

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
A group of actuaries have answered the calls of retirees looking for a simpler way to determine how much money they should draw out of their savings in retirement, developing a new three-part rule of thumb. The Rule of Thumb Working Group has developed ...

Netwealth welcomes new distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2019
... distribution at Ralton Asset Management between 2007 and 2011. Earlier this month, Netwealth was recognised by Plan for Life Actuaries and Researchers as growing faster than some of its more established competitors. In percentage terms, Netwealth experienced ...

Netwealth top for FUM growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
New research from Plan For Life Actuaries & Researchers has revealed Netwealth is growing much faster than some of its more established competitors. The research found a total $37.7 billion rise in funds under management over the year to June 2019 for ...

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
KPMG has appointed a life insurance lead partner who previously held executive roles at AMP and Challenger. Pauline Blight-Johnston joins the consulting firm's actuarial and financial risk practice on October 8. She was most recently general manager ...

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
A moratorium on genetic testing in the life insurance industry means that Australians can get up to half a million dollars of life cover without disclosing genetic tests. The Financial Services Council approved a moratorium on genetic tests in life ...