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MLC Life Insurance under review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
Australia's life insurance industry is facing deteriorating profitability in relation to income protection products, according to MLC Life Insurance owner Nippon Life. The Japan-based majority shareholder of MLC Life purchased the business off National ...

Modest but meaningful growth on the horizon: Aviva

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... BlackRock and DWS Group, will land in Melbourne on February 5 and travel to Sydney on February 7. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... Plus. Using stolen identities, the syndicate stole money from super and share-trading accounts and laundered the money to purchase untraceable assets. 8. Admin change leaves super fund members in the dark Financial Standard revealed in May that almost ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... -0.50% respectively," the ECB said "On 1 November net purchases were restarted under the Governing Council's asset purchase programme (APP) at a monthly pace of €20 billion." "The Governing Council intends to continue reinvesting, in full, the ...

Pinnacle buys stake in Coolabah

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... billion in funds under management) buying back Yellow Brick Road's 50% stake in the business. Pinnacle is funding the purchase via a facility from CBA and expects the transaction to complete around next Monday. Berkshire Global Advisors acted as ...

IOOF, ANZ transaction gets green light

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
APRA has approved IOOF's application to purchase ANZ's superannuation business. The decision to allow the purchase of OnePath Custodians and Oasis Funds Management comes from APRA after it was granted the legislative power to approve or refuse an application ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... sector activity since April 2011". Yes, Samranvedhya, 'twas Super Mario's negative interest rate policy and asset purchase programme that helped the Eurozone recover its growth momentum, so much so that the ECB decided to end its QE programme ...

Super funds snap up local renewable asset

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
Two of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds have joined forces to purchase a South Australian wind farm capable of generating enough energy to power more than 140,000 homes each year. HESTA and First State Super have partnered with independent ...

ASIC bans direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... which insurance product best meets their needs and the compare alterative products, without feeling pressured to make a purchase". "Such a ban is consistent with the Financial Services Royal Commission recommendations, and will provide consumers with ...

How it can all go wrong

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
In the most-talked about session on the FPA Congress program, former Queensland adviser James Cribb sat down with his lawyer Rhett Das to explain how he came to be banned and what he wishes he'd done differently. In July last year, Cribb was banned ...