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Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US earn more than 99 cents for every dollar earned by male counterparts. It ...

Older Aussies failing to account for longevity risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... has increased by about six years over the past three decades, 22% haven't planned at all for an increasing lifespan. The study also found that just 3% have planned to spend more later in life, with 61% planning to spend the same throughout and 36% planning ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... core fixed income over the past three years outweighs those who reduced their holdings. Invesco's first global fixed income study found the majority (52%) of APAC instos also increased allocation to alternative credit such as infrastructure and real ...

Small advice firms face big data breach penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... harm to an individual may include physical, psychological, emotional, financial or reputational harm." Carnell cited a new study that found 44% of Australian businesses are not fully prepared for cyber-attacks. "Another report by Telstra last year found ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... investors pay female artists up to 50% less for their work compared to men on average, latest academic research has found. A study of more than a million art auction sales across 40 years found a 47.6% price gap between male and female artists across ...

Group insurance dominates life insurance channels: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... This was closely followed by the employer or group insurance channel (23.9%). In the 2017 life insurance buying behaviour study by NobleOak, almost half (43.6%) of 1000 respondents preferred to consult the internet when considering life insurance. A ...

Phone leads life insurance sales: Roy Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... planners account for 7.3% of current policies, up from 7% five years ago, with policy numbers showing no real change. A recent study from NobleOak found consumers are increasingly relying on the internet and digital devices to purchase life insurance ...

Life insurance consumers shun financial advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... increasingly relying on the internet and digital devices to purchase life insurance instead of financial advisers, a new study from NobleOak shows. Almost half (43.6%) of the 1000 respondents in NobleOak and Pureprofile's 2017 life insurance buying behaviour ...

The next generation of adviser and client

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... global advice industry to adopt a more inclusive approach to solving the issue of gender inequality. This follows an SSGA study of the US advice landscape conducted in conjunction with InvestmentNews Research which found 15.7% of the nations' 310,504 ...

Crowdfunding investment opportunity unleashed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... the UK looking to raise capital have had the option to turn to equity crowdfunding since 2011, and according to a Statista study on alternative finance, more than GBP330 million was raised in 2015 alone. In the US, the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business ...