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PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
In April the Actuaries Institute launched an advertising campaign painting actuaries as the 'rock stars of the 21st Century'. FourA months into the role, new chief executiveA David Bell tells James Fernyhough what heA hopes the campaign will achieve. ...

ISA and FSC prepare for Federal Court clash

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
A Federal Court face-off between the Financial Services Council (FSC) and Industry Super Australia (ISA) looks likely over the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) involvement in workplace superannuation. The FSC yesterday lodged an application with the Federal ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Industry superannuation funds are spending millions of dollars a year on advertising, with some funds' expenditure even exceeding that spent by banks on their own superannuation advertising campaigns, figures released by Nielsen show. However, overall ...

Challenger reports record annuities sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... about the revival of the Australian lifetime annuities market." Benari said that, since the launch of a new advertising campaign at the end of last year, website traffic had tripled. On the funds management side, Challenger's funds under management reached ...

Direct insurance taints consumer views on life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
Bad experiences with direct life insurance companies are tainting consumers' views of life insurance in general, according to Synchron director John Prossor. Prossor said that instead of turning to advice insurance after a bad experience with direct ...

FPA-Cbus referral deal makes promising start

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
... industry funds and financial planners over commissions and Industry Super Australia's "Compare the Pair" advertising campaign. Harper said the partnership with the FPA could help to forge a better relationship between the two sectors. Currently only ...

AMP platforms soar, SMSFs dawdle

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... billion at the end of September. But it wasn't all exuberant growth. Despite running the most active SMSF advertising campaign in the country, AMP's SMSF business only administered an extra 150 self-managed superannuation fund trustees, taking the total ...

Industry applauds ISN-FSC union

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
The industry has reacted positively to Thursday's joint announcement that the Industry Super Network (ISN) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) will form a union. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Rainmaker Excellence Awards 2013

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... Consolidation Colonial First State Loose Ends TFN Consent & Consolidation Telstra Super Hello Tomorrow HOSTPLUS Best Advertising Campaign of the Year (Consumer Division) Winner CAN Commonwealth Bank of Australia Finalists SuperFit MLC Heritage Bank Heritage ...

FPA reiterates need for professional qualifications

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... 2013 it will be mandatory to hold an approved degree to become a member of the professional association. The advertising campaign supports the announcement made by the FPA two years ago of an initiative to raise the standards of the financial planning ...