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Unclaimed life insurance up by $28 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... the government in previous years can be claimed by making applications to the life insurance company or to the friendly society concerned, ASIC said.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... Australian Centre For Financial Studies. In equities news, BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie is slated to speak at a Asia Society Australia lunch, in Melbourne, and 21st Century Fox (formerly News Corp) posts full year results in the US. In Australia ...

Coalition signals super policy changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee into Corporations and Financial Services, gave a speech to the H R Nichols Society this week where he attacked industry super fund trustees and how default funds are nominated on awards. "If you just take ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... its retail trade figures for May. Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is schedule to speak at the Economic Society of Australia, while Vodafone Hutchison Australia chief executive Bill Morrow is slated to address an American Chamber of Commerce ...

Big banks move into SBB space

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
The Benevolent Society is teaming up with Westpac Institutional Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to issue Australia's second Social Benefit Bond (SBB) to fund the establishment of The Family Preservation Service. The service will focus on ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... her planner was seen as "significant". "Planners have to understand where women sit within a family and also within the society, they need to spend more time building trust and knowing what women want before trying to sell them anything," Russell said. ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... that found that all five ex-Bank of Japan (BOJ) officials doubt whether 'Abenomics' would succeed because of its "aging society" and four "seeing little chance that the BOJ will achieve its 2 percent inflation target". That's Japan's nasty news. But ...

New FPA member base shows changing face of industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... background and with the emphasis now on empathy and relationships, it helps that planners come from a broad cross-section of society." Female financial planners represented 32% of the new membership, while Generation X accounted for 48%. FPA chief executive ...

Over regulation delays global recovery

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... wake of the global financial crisis, it said that unintended consequences are likely to slow global growth. "The view of society as a whole, and legislative bodies in particular, is that as the banks failed them, action to address this failure is entirely ...

BFO board adds Vamos and Chronican

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... challenges and make decisions," Vamos said. "The Banking and Finance Oath affirms respect for the position of trust that society gives to banking and finance workers, and effective leadership plays an important role in setting the right example," Chronican ...