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HESTA gives members free super advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... meet an SSA in their workplace for personal advice on investment choice, voluntary and additional super contributions, insurance, account consolidation and other super issues. Members who would like financial advice extending beyond superannuation issues ...

Optimum gets a pre-Christmas product upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... Optimum corporate and personal super platforms, ranging from new investment choices, family-linked accounts and improved insurance cover. Jane Power, Asteron's head of product and marketing, said the enhancements were developed after customer testing ...

Stringent orders for winding up of Sovereign fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... just and equitable grounds. One of the primary reasons for the application was that Sovereign's professional indemnity insurance was not about to be renewed, meaning Sovereign would be in breach of its license conditions. ASIC intervened and brought ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... science. Today Australia will continue talks with China on removing foreign equity restrictions on the legal, banking, insurance and education professions as part of ongoing free-trade talks. While Australia is attempting to protect the clothing, footwear ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... the tool to establish what fee differences exist between products and how that relates to the actual investment and insurance choices offered by each provider. Keevers said advisers have pushed Rainmaker to expand the fund coverage so dramatically. "We ...

Top insurers join with IFF to help with mental health

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... Funds Forum (IFF) mental health campaign is so important. If it helps the bottom-line of super funds through better insurance deals then all the better. Mental health organisations, industry super funds and six major insurance companies have joined together ...

Super tax changes could boost SMSFs: MultiPort

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... deductible contributions," said La Greca. Other reasons why super fund members maintain several accounts is to maximise their insurance and to even diversify their investment risk. La Greca said this flexibility is why self-managed super funds (SMSFs) ...

Awards to recognise the best in life insurance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan For Life have launched the Life Insurance Company of the Year Product and Service Quality Awards 2006. The awards will be held annually and will recognise the top pranked life insurance companies ...

Planner PI insurance reforms unclear: AFA

... Government proposals requiring financial services licensees, such as planning groups, to take out professional indemnity (PI) insurance to cover potential compensation claims about the quality of their advice have met mixed reactions from industry experts. ...

A new head for Hillross

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... having spent the last eight years working with AMP Financial Services New Zealand, most recently as general manager life insurance. AMP director of advice based distribution, Steve Helmich, said McMurdo would continue to be an asset to the AMP business. ...