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Regulators name laggard life insurance providers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
While the majority of life insurance claims are paid in the first instance (92%), the wait and resolution times vary significantly across providers, a joint study by the regulators found. AMP (eight months) and Westpac (three months) take the longest ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... 2016 election campaign is good news for the global share markets, Financial Standard's latest spot poll shows. The majority of readers (68%) agree that since special counsel Mueller's investigation, which found Trump did not obstruct justice, stock markets ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... by vertically-integrated institutions to influence advice and channel clients into in-house product," it said. "The majority of financial advisers can only choose from a narrow menu of products dictated by their Australian Financial Services Licensee ...

Women lead superannuation fund engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
While the majority of members are not engaged with their superannuation, women are taking the lead and contributing more to their nest egg, new Vanguard Australia research suggests. Vanguard's 2019 How Australia Saves research, which analysed data on ...

Brookfield acquires 62% of Oaktree Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... innings. In baseball, in a regular game there are nine innings. Sometimes it goes longer - there's a tie - but vast majority of games go nine innings," Marks said. "The trouble with investing is, I can tell you we are in the eighth innings - and ...

Investors stick with managed accounts despite volatility

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... returns tell us that very few investors became worried by the market volatility and other news," Potter said. "The vast majority of investors clearly had a good understanding of their investment strategy, and that they are working closely with their ...

Market cap funds disappoint investors: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
The vast majority of Australian funds failed to outperform respective benchmarks in 2018 and recorded relatively poor performance compared to the prior year. This is according to the latest S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA Australia Scorecard, which showed ...

Financial advisers evolving as wealth managers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... capital preservation when selecting investments for clients," Investment Trends analyst John Carver said. The vast majority of stockbrokers (73%) and financial planners (83%) believe gearing is a key investment strategy in clients' portfolios, but ...

Sunsuper introduces advice fee caps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... has been positive, she added. "We understand this is a big change, however the new fees have been welcomed by the majority of financial advisers we work with, who understand the caps are in the best interests of our more than 1.3 million members," Fuchs ...

CFA Institute settles hiring dispute

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... citizens. "Graders are hired for a one to two-week period every year to grade essay questions from Level III exams. The majority of graders have full-time jobs in financial services and participate in grading because of their charterholder status, their ...