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Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is division over whether or not private life insurers should be able to fund medical treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting ...

Industry funds call for super shortfall reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
The likelihood of a comfortable, self-sufficient retirement will diminish over the next decade for about 3.1 million Australians, according to new research. Recent findings from AustralianSuper and Cbus suggest the changing nature of work will create ...

Advisers struggling with SMSF diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
Only one in five financial advisers consider clients' self-managed superannuation funds to be well diversified. The 2018 SMSF Insights Paper - a collaboration between Investment Trends, BT Financial Group and the SMSF Association - shows that despite ...

Managed accounts aid adviser time management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
Financial advisers using managed accounts are saving an average of 12.4 hours per week on portfolio management tasks, according to research from NAB and Investment Trends. The report shows using a managed account structure shaves the most time off investment ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
It's good and...it's bad. The statistician's estimates of the Australian labour market for April provide something to crow about for the optimists and the pessimists alike. As the bulls would have it (that includes the Coalition government ...

AMP Advice risk chief departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
The chief risk officer at AMP's embattled financial advice business has resigned. Pally Bargri has departed his post as AMP Advice chief risk officer, stating he does not have the capacity required to help steer the under fire wealth manager through ...

ASIC cancels Melbourne firm's AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of a Melbourne-based advice firm, which was among a trio of companies that copped a $7.2 million fine from the corporate regulator in February. ASIC took Wealth & Risk Management Pty ...

TCorp investment operations boss departs in leadership restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
The general manager of investment implementation and operations at TCorp will leave the business after 13 years as part of a leadership overhaul. Jonathan Green joined TCorp in 2005 as head of investment management; he was previously manager member ...

JPMAM names acquisitions officer for Australia and New Zealand

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed a new acquisitions officer, Australia and New Zealand for real estate Asia-Pacific. James Santi takes on the newly-created role having previously been senior director of capital markets at CBRE. Prior to that ...

Fees for no service compensation unfinished business: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
Newly-minted ASIC chair James Shipton said there will be more consumer compensation to come over fees for no service financial advice. Three months into his role, Shipton addressed the annual Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference ...