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MLC launches digital underwriting platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... to provide "instant quotes" for life insurance cover in as little as five minutes. The digital tool will query a comprehensive database of industry standard questions to assess a person's health and lifestyle status. "Underwriting has been an area has ...

Netwealth sells Pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... than a month, having acquired digital advice compliance business Lucsan. Lucsan provides financial advisers with comprehensive compliance coverage including daily oversight, targeted adviser auditing, best interest metrics and automated statement of ...

CBA advice failures unacceptable: Comyn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... service package they paid for. CBA then worked with independent experts, Deloitte and EY, to develop and implement a comprehensive Advice Fee Refund program covering the period 2007 to 2015, which involved reviewing about 62,000 customer files. CBA chief ...

Optimo adds SMSF modelling to platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... multi-module programs and third-party paraplanning services. "The self-managed super fund generation is demanding a comprehensive strategy consistent with the evolving super rules," Bannister said. The new release, which is in beta phase, will meet demand ...

AFA responds to 'disappointing' PJC life insurance report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has slammed the Parliamentary Joint Committee's report on life insurance, highlighting several aspects as surprising, perplexing and disappointing. The AFA hit out at the PJC's assessment of the direct, group ...

Default options safeguard retirement savings: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... alternative to address poor decision-making, provided the default is well designed." With framework development for Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement ongoing, the research suggests that consideration of the impact of cognitive decline on the ...

Global firms build hedge fund cash service

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... dashboard. The new service utilises cash projection and intraday cash activity data from NTFHS to provide users with a comprehensive view of liquidity and cash positions. NTHFS chief executive officer Peter Sanchez said that NTHFS have met client needs ...

FASEA consultation could sway retirement outcomes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... for the development of a new retirement income framework, comprising more than just purpose built products like Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement. At the framework's foundation, Challenger believes targeted financial advice is also needed ...

Royal Commission to take "labyrinthine" advice legislation to task

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... had brought increasing numbers of middle-class households into the market for financial products and services." A comprehensive redesign was suggested by the Financial System Inquiry in 1997, focusing on the idea that a single market conduct and disclosure ...

FASEA standards still lacking: FPA

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... for consumers," he said. "It is important for everyone to recognise the FASEA education standards are part of a comprehensive package of changes, and these components need to be considered and assessed as a whole." Under FASEA's proposed education requirements ...