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Industry fund bags consecutive customer experience award

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
A $25 billion industry super fund has claimed consecutive top customer experience awards from Customer Service Benchmarking Australia (CSBA). Spirit Super ranked first again in CSBA's SenseCX benchmarking report, which evaluates ease, sentiment ...

Former AMP adviser pleads guilty to dishonest conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
A former AMP representative, who falsified information when providing superannuation and insurance advice, has pleaded guilty to three charges of dishonest conduct and is due to be sentenced. David Fong, who operated Fong Financial Planners, pleaded ...

Still work to be done on group insurance: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... 15 trustees in relation to enhancing their offerings. Across the funds reviewed, three million accounts had death and TPD cover and 800,000 had income protection cover. Primarily, ASIC looked at whether members were receiving better value from their ...

Virgin Money Super ups premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
Virgin Money Super is increasing insurance premiums on death and TPD cover from April 22. Members have been notified that premium rates per week, per unit of death only cover will increase from $0.41 to $0.55. For death and TPD will increase from $0.67 ...

Could a four-day workweek save the day?

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... - and remember, they're only being paid for 38," Dawson says. "In those jobs where you're rostering people on to cover shop opening hours, hospitals, schools and other customer facing roles, you can simply create more jobs and share opportunities ...

iShares hires APAC markets and investments lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
BlackRock's iShares has named an Asia Pacific lead for markets and investments who most recently worked at Goldman Sachs. Joining in May, Nicholas Peach takes the official title of APAC head of markets and investments for iShares and index investments ...

Lending to small businesses increases: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
Despite soaring interest rates, the number of small business owners borrowing from banks has sharply risen in 2022, a new survey reveals. More than a third (36%) of Australian small businesses canvassed by CPA Australia are increasingly relying on external ...

NZ advisers begin new licensing regime

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Financial advisers in New Zealand are now operating under a new licensing regime that is regulated by the markets watchdog. From March 17, all financial advice providers (FAPs) must hold or operate under a full licence from the Financial Markets Authority ...

Spotlight shines brighter on climate reporting: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Asset owners must be mindful of increasing regulatory and legislative pressures that will soon sharpen their ability to provide quality and accurate climate disclosure reports, according to an expert. FS Sustainability managing editor Rachel Alembakis ...

Fixed interest ETP issuers hit the gas

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... said, the biggest players in this space are Vanguard (29%), Betashares (28%) and BlackRock (21%). "Fixed interest products cover a lot of different types of investment risks, but the two main types are duration risk and credit risk," Rainmaker said. ...