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Life insurance regulation needs government backing: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... policy design and disclosure. The poll, which was conducted at the recent Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference, found more than a third (36%) said the bar set by the code was too low, while the majority felt (59%) it was just right. When ...

Outgoing CEO name removed from critical AMP report draft

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... Utz report prepared about misconduct in the advice business. He took AMP advice head Anthony Regan to task about a conference call on 21 December 2017 in which Regan, Meller, AMP dispute resolution general counsel Larissa Baker Cook and Clayton Utz national ...

AIST president and board director switch seats

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees president David Smith is leaving his post after a two-year term and a board director has climbed up to the fill the presidency. Catherine Bolger will be AIST's new president. She has been a board director ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, the supremo talked about lowering (you read right, lowering) import tariffs, relaxing foreign investment regulations and ...

Increasing SG is not the answer: O'Dwyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... pointing out several reasons why this is not the only answer to help boost retirement savings. O'Dwyer told an industry conference that "mandating what people must put into their superannuation isn't the only way to increase retirement savings" and that ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... stride. This is no better underscored by the just-released results of the consumer confidence survey conducted by the Conference Board. Sure, the survey showed that overall consumer confidence declined to a reading of 127.7 in March from a downwardly ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... is Trump on their respective economies. Case in point: the European Central Bank. Speaking before the Watchers XIX Conference on the 14 March - before Trump's tariffs took effect and before Trump granted a temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia ...

GROW Super begins group insurance innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... licensees and financial advisers to develop digital capabilities across several engagement points. Speaking at the Conference of Major Super Funds in Brisbane last week, GROW co-founder Mathew Keeley said the start-up - which only launched in May 2017 ...

O'Dwyer flags government intervention on insurance in super code

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... O'Dwyer expressed her frustration with the industry's inertia at yesterday's Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference in Sydney. She is "convinced" trustees are not taking their best interest duties seriously. "I am concerned that some, possibly ...

FSC proposes genetics and insurance council

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... research and genetics testing. Chief executive Sally Loane announced the initiative at this morning's FSC Life Insurance Conference, urging the need to respond to the rapid advancement and importance of genetic science. The FSC's standard governing the ...