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Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... valued. This is driving CIOs to explore non-traditional asset classes that can offer higher total return potential and compensation for illiquidity," GSAM's global head of insurance asset management Michael Siegel said. "Against a backdrop of low yields ...

Regulation tops Australian business risk survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... 'people risk,' which moved up eight positions and now occupies third place in the Aon survey. "The cost of workers' compensation insurance is increasing and has led to a greater focus on injury prevention and early intervention," Lambrou said. "The need ...

Platform error forces NAB to pay further compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
A review of NAB Wealth's Navigator platform has revealed that the bank made a mistake when calculating compensation to 43,000 clients in 2012. NAB Wealth expects the compensation to be less than $200,000, which adds to the $1.9 million that the bank ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... led to a job as a researcher at the Air Traffic Controllers' Union, and then a job at Trades Hall, in a workers' compensation policy role. A couple of other union roles led him to head up the national office of the Finance Sector Union. "My interest ...

We did a "pretty good job" in CBA planning case: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... took too long to get through." Tanzer argued that ASIC did a good job because it "recovered $50 million worth of compensation for investors," because it banned a number of entities from the industry and because it put in place "a significant cultural ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... operating surplus" (profits) of private non-financial institutions contributed 0.9 percentage points to nominal GDP and "compensation of employees" (wages) added 0.5 percentage points. In simple terms company profits are rising - good for business investment ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... RBS Capital Resolution. The provisions include costs to meet US action over mortgage-backed financial products and compensation for the mis-selling in Britain of insurance covering credit products such as consumer loans. It has taken a hit also from ...

Sinodinos rules out LRBA review for SMSFs

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... sort of regime and we think it can work well in this sector." However, he said that the government would not provide compensation when " things go wrong." "If you have tight regulation, you can't prevent another financial collapse occuring. We can't ...

ASIC cancels Capital Advisers' licence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... it subsequently going into voluntary administration. ASIC's concerns included Capital Advisers not having adequate compensation and insurance arrangements and failing to have measures in place to ensure their organisational competence. Following ASIC's ...

Compensation opposed for SMSFs: SPAA

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... SMSFs Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has supported the government's stance to oppose any form of compensation scheme for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). In response to a statement made by the Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos ...