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Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... reforms could improve productivity in the sector that is the largest contributor to fiscal pressures. Even modest improvements in this area would reduce fiscal pressures significantly," the report said. Illustrating the point, the PC report revealed ...

UBS grants advisers access to industry funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... they pay their adviser, in accordance with the policy of the fund. UBS also said it is planning a series of further improvements in 2014, including the integration of improved research, market data and charting capabilities, as well as the addition of ...

Wealth division contributes to strong ANZ result

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... Retail life insurance in-force premiums grew 10% and funds under management increased 13% driven by productivity improvements in both ANZ and aligned planner channels and improved investment market performance, the bank said. "The scale of the transformation ...

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... Information and Technology staff have now been furloughed. "While support for existing operations continues, all improvements to our systems have ceased. This threatens to delay updates to the Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS) that allows us ...

Get longevity risk right on DLAs, warns APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... breakthroughs, such as "the proverbial cure for cancer", should be factored in. "If you get the assumptions about longevity improvements wrong, the implications can be really quite significant. The impact on deferred life expectancy is really very high," ...

FoFA changes, an improvement to advice businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... the advice that they are giving and this is already improving the level of the service." Bineham predicted that the improvements will be clearer "once advisers are feeling more comfortable about what kind of service they are providing." A number of financial ...

IPA joins Kaplan in support of ASIC adviser training stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013

TAL puts focus on super in latest offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013

FoFA still in need of changes: industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... the removal of opt-in, simplification and streamline of the additional annual fee disclosure requirements and it improvements of the best interest duty. At the same time, it will aim to provide certainty around the provision and availability of scaled ...

First State Super launches rebrand

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... fund, we can give our members greater stability, improved services and more consistent returns and this delivers improvements in the financial wellbeing of every one of our members," he continued. The announcement of the new brand is the first in a series ...