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

Search Results

Showing 621 - 630 of 5329 results for "Third"

Super funds prime distributor of death, TPD cover

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... Rainmaker projects that by 2031 intermediaries could hold only 40% of the market. Conversely, super funds could hold one-third, or 55%. "Super funds being Australia's primary death and TPD life insurance distributor prompts the question as to why directly ...

Pacific Equity Partners finances reverse mortgage lender

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2023
... need to commit to clear principles that deliver better outcomes for our seniors: greater awareness of home equity as the third pillar of retirement funding; confidence in voluntary self-funded retirement from home equity as private property; trust in ...

FSCP issues slap on the wrist to adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... director and financial planner Michael Miller said that some of the lessons that can be taken from it are similar to the third determination. "It is the first time that a panel has used the least serious of the actions available to it, providing a written ...

Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... super industry and the community." "As the matter is before the courts we are unable to comment further." This is ASIC's third greenwashing civil penalty proceeding, having taken action against Vanguard Investments and against Mercer Super earlier ...

Industry fund cuts insurance costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... injuries,' 'permanent impairment,' 'specific loss,' 'loss of independent existence,' 'cognitive loss,' and 'homemakers'. The third inclusion is specific cover addressing cases of 'suffering a permanent severe psychiatric incapacity'. Meanwhile, in a ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2023
... greenwashing in a bond fund raises the question of whether the market regulator will crack down on index providers and other third-party service providers for greenwashing as well. Last month, ASIC announced it is taking Vanguard to federal court, alleging ...

Should wealthy Aussies use super to fund aged care?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023
... is also minister for financial services, added: "It strikes me as odd in a system which is about retirement income that a third of the cheques that are being written by superannuation funds by value, so a third of the value of cheques that superannuation ...

Integro Private Wealth welcomes GM

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... national level." According to the ATO's 2023 taxation figures, Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove in Western Australia are the third highest earning suburbs in the country.

Bravura names chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2023
... shares have experienced a persistent downward trend, declining by nearly 60% over the past year. The appointment marks the third chief executive in three years since the departure of long-standing chief executive Tony Klim in 2021. Klim held the role ...

Perpetual reports $212bn in AUM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
... international equities strategies as well as fixed income. Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams said: "As foreshadowed in our third quarter business update, the macro environment has remained challenging and is driving general caution towards equities ...