Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 41 - 50 of 368 results for "IFS"

IFS Insurance Solutions MD appointed at CommInsure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
IFS Insurance Solutions managing director has been appointed head of industry and public sector funds, wholesale life insurance at CommInsure. Robert Nunez will join CommInsure in early 2015 and will be focusing on addressing "the key drivers and issues ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... would keep the official cash rate on ice "until 2016". I placed quotation marks on "until 2016" cause that's one of the main "ifs" Deutsche Bank chief economist, Adam Boyton, set forth as one of the preconditions for the dollar-A to hit 0.66 versus the ...

Group insurance consortiums 'inevitable': MetLife

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... inevitable as time goes by, because of the scale of these large operations," he said. Goodall was responding to a question from IFS Insurance Solutions principal, client service and operations Shane Fielding. "There's up to half a dozen industry funds ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research, which was conducted in association with IFS Insurance Solutions, looks at the claims experience of 13 industry super funds relating to death claims due to suicide, and ...

Kinetic Super launches intra-fund advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Kinetic Super has partnered with Industry Funds Services (IFS) to launch its first intra-fund advice service, providing members with limited advice on insurance cover, contributions or investment choice. The service will be provided and licenced under ...

Brogden leaves FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
John Brogden will step down as chief executive of the Financial Services Council (FSC) at the end of the year, FSC chairman Greg Cooper has announced. Brogden leaves the role to take up a position as chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company ...

IFS caught investing in unregistered schemes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
Industry Fund Services (IFS) has breached an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) class order by incorrectly investing client funds into an unregistered managed investment scheme. IFS recently changed their investment options after ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... he delivered his keynote address to the ECB's annual Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal last night. There were no ifs, ands, ors... nor buts. No more "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah..." I can just imagine the central bank heads ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... 2016, if the US lifts its rates by mid-2015 and if the US dollar continues to strengthen". If you think you've had enough of 'ifs' there's more where they came from. RBS senior currency strategist Greg Gibbs adds IF the Chinese economy struggles and ...