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Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement finalised in Atlanta this week will provide a platform for multilateral trade with major economies in the Pacific Rim, creating new opportunities for Australian financial services companies. The TTP Agreement ...

Senate hears too many holes for women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Several superannuation representative groups are addressing federal parliament with the belief there are too many holes for women in Australia's current retirement savings system. Ahead of the Senate public hearing looking at economic security for women ...

SPIVA report shows most active managers beaten by index again

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
The latest S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) scorecard has once again revealed the vast majority of active managers underperform their benchmark. The latest rebalance of the semi-annual report for data to end of June 2015, shows that ...

Direct life outpaced by group sector

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
Life insurance sales are dominated by the group sector and direct insurers are struggling to keep pace, according to Rice Warner head of consulting and research Jenni Baxter. Commenting on Rice Warner's Direct Insurance Report 2015, Baxter described ...

CBA's advice review compensates 19 clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... clients (2% were offered a fee refund). However, some of these offers have been rejected by the customers and resulted in a counter-offer made to CBA (11 cases); other customers are still reviewing the offer (23 cases), while 19 have accepted the bank's ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015

AFA announces awards finalists

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers has announced the finalists for its 2015 awards. In partnership with TAL, the Female Excellence in Advice Award finalists are Perspective Financial Services' Esther Althaus, PetersMcKeown's Tricia Peters and NAB's ...

FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan is expected to know more about her future today after making seething comments on the union's executive earlier this week. The FSU's national executive is reported to be meeting today and is ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
UniSuper has crept in to the world's top 100 retirement savings funds, joining four Australian counterparts in the annual list compiled by Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with ...