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NULIS names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... Centuria Life, the Motor Accidents Insurance Board and Mission Australia. NULIS, owned by the NAB group, has been the case study of the Royal Commission for the last two days. NULIS acknowledged in its five submissions it engaged in misconduct falling ...

Royal Commission revisits fees for no service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... be hit with $67 million in compensations costs Hodge said the Commission will hear from MLC's trustee NULIS as a case study after it admitted to engaging in conduct that fell below community expectations. In a statement handed down to the Commission ...

Financial literacy in females continues to lag

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... almost all aspects of financial literacy and by considerable measure, according to the latest HILDA survey. For the latest study, University of Melbourne researchers administered a five-point financial literacy test, assessing respondents on numeracy ...

Poor tech derails financial services marketing: Study

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... marketing technology poses more roadblocks for financial services marketers than competitor products or management buy-in, a new study shows. Yell Creative found 32% of the marketers they surveyed in their annual 'Australian Finance Marketing Survey' ...

Retirement planning is a personal responsibility

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... situation in retirement, with 45% saying they were not optimistic. Additionally, 38% surveyed in SSGA's global retirement study said their savings wouldn't get close to what they need in retirement. People approaching retirement were only a little less ...

ASIC unveils RG97 review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... to be taken into account, the stakeholders said. One of the main recommendations involved ASIC undertaking a feasibility study into whether it, or another government agency could provide or support the development a publicly accessible, consumer-facing ...

Aussie retirees blindsided by cost of living: Schroders

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... Sixty-one percent of retirees state they either don't have enough income or could do with more to live comfortably. Schroders' study examined detailed responses from 1200 Australians, and according to the investment manager a gulf exists between the ...

FASEA-induced exodus increasingly likely

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... 20% of FINSIA's adviser members will leave the advice industry if they are forced to undertake additional postgraduate study. According to a survey conducted by the industry body in support of its submission to the Financial Adviser Standards and ...

Westpac ditches SMSF lending

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... following: direct shares (36%) cash and cash products (23%), managed investments (22%), direct property (12%) and other (4%). The study of 1096 SMSFs showed 82% agreed diversifying their SMSF is important but in practice many don't achieve it. The ...

Family offices maintain equity allocations: Study

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
Latest research shows less than one-third of family offices are using quantitative models to determine asset class allocations and position sizes. At the same time, equity allocations remain unchanged. These are the key takeaways from the most recent ...