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Life insurance needs to prove value

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... one, or to help people support themselves and their family when they are too ill to work, after a critical illness or who are not expected to be able to work ever again." Speaking at the event, First State Super's head of insurance David Evans said the ...

Sydney boutique winds up fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... the much-bigger model portfolio. The boutique decided to shutter its industrials fund (and equivalent mFund), saying it has not been able to grow the funds under management to a sustainable level. The Redpoint Industrials Fund aimed to perform in line ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... inaccurate" to AUSTRAC. After further investigation, the bank has discovered an additional 175,000 transactions that were not reported to AUSTRAC, while 365,000 were reported to the financial intelligence agency but contained irregularities. It comes ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... on more than economic fundamentals. Stephen Miller, investment strategist at GSFM, said investing uncertainty is elevated, not just as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also because of other pre-existing economic issues. "Trade-wars, deglobalisation ...

APRA intervention blindsided AFA, FPA taskforce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... both advisers and consumers about the impact this would have?" De Gori added, referring to the intervention. He said APRA had not communicated clearly about the impacts of its sustainability work in life insurance on advisers. "I think we have too many ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... already invested in distressed or opportunistic strategies that seek to benefit from the pandemic fallout. A further 22% have not yet done this but plan to in the coming months. bfinance found only 25% of respondents are changing their strategic asset ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... news" about consumers losing life insurance due to the early release of super has irritated her. Hume said consumers would not lose life insurance policies held through their superannuation if their balances dipped below $6000, they'd only lose the insurance ...

Australian Unity names chief executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... originations. Prior to her tenure at NAB, Yates worked at ANZ as an executive director of institutional banking, whilst also forming not-for-profit organisation Women in Banking and Finance. She also spent 10 years with Citi as its corporate bank's head ...

Calls for broad default life insurance system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... 'default' life insurance system plus a diversity of distribution mechanisms to address individual needs. "The solution is not to continue to erode advised support for those Australians who need to make informed decisions about their life insurance ...

Australian Ethical adds to executive team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... to grow the business and ethical investing," she said. "I'm especially looking forward to engaging with its customers and not just delivering but exceeding their expectations." McMurdo said Australian Ethical has long embraced the value of diversity ...