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Managed accounts boost advice business valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
New research from Rainmaker reveals that managed accounts are not only enabling advisers to improve their clients' investment outcomes as well as boost their own business' worth, they are enabling new investment managers to enter the market. The research ...

REI Super extends Ibbotson consultancy mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... obligations to their members," Ibbotson managing director Chris Galloway said. "Leveraging our capabilities in capital markets research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction enables us to help REI Super members achieve their retirement objectives." ...

Super modern awards anti-competitive: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
Research by the Financial Services Council (FSC) suggests that modern awards are reducing competition in the superannuation industry. FSC's analysis of the modern awards system demonstrates a disproportionate representation of industry, government and ...

ASIC national exam proposal lacks evidence: CMCRC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... ASIC chair Greg Medcraft's call for a national adviser examination is flawed, according to Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) chief executive Michael Aitken. While recognising Medcraft's good intentions, Professor Aitken argued that ...

Super trustees must be vigilant about managers: Deloitte

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Superannuation trustees need to actively prioritise implemented asset consultants that add value, according to new research by Deloitte Actuaries & Consultants. Deloitte surveyed six major consultants over the five years to 30 June 2014, using the Vanguard ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... 9-times. Just a few decades ago it was as low as 3-times. But rather than younger FHB being locked out of the market, research group Digital Finance Analytics has just released a research blog post that reveals one third of them may simply be switching ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Life insurance premiums jumped 12.9% during 2014 driven by group business, which has surged by 24%. The figures are contained in the latest analysis by insurance industry researcher Plan For Life for the 12 months to September 2014. According to the ...

Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... the UK insurance comparator website Beat That Quote in 2012 which it has transformed into Google Compare, but Forrester Research analyst Ellen Carney reported in a tech industry blog last week that Google has lodged insurance licensing applications in ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... for the global economy" which would boost the level of GDP by between 0.3% and 0.7% this year. Similarly, World Bank research found that a 10% drop in oil prices would increase oil importing countries' GDP by 0.1 to 0.5 percentage points. Not only this ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... he wrote in a nationally published opinion piece: "The returns on these investments fund scholarships, staff salaries, research projects and new infrastructure. In many cases the funds are donated to the University for these purposes. The University ...