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MetLife partners with industry fund for digital tool

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... the claims process," D'Alessandro said. "We are hoping that by streamlining the application process we are able to take a little bit of the stress out of the situation for those at a time when they most need it most." MetLife said the move was in anticipation ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
It may still be early days but the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) "tweaking" of monetary appears to have done nothing significant for the yen and the Nikkei-225 so far. At the conclusion of its July 30-31 monetary policy meeting - where it kept current monetary ...

The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... judge that the UK economy currently has a very limited degree of slack. Unemployment is low and is projected to fall a little further. In the MPC's central projection, therefore, a small margin of excess demand emerges by late 2019 and builds thereafter ...

LIT serves up junk bonds to SMSFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... high-yield credit has remained low. "In conversations we have had, it appears that a large portion of SMSF investors have little to none exposure to high-yield credit in their portfolios," he said. Junk bonds have high yields but also high risk. Bommi ...

Chief economist update: Don't mind the gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... would be able to ask (and be given, crossed fingers and toes) higher pay. But perhaps, we should hold that thought for a little while longer for as the chart below shows the correlation between the NAIRU has broken down since around the middle of 2016 ...

IOOF executives dismiss conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... "substantial" amount more than others. Aberdeen for example paid, about $136,000 to IFH every quarter while others would pay as little as $1250. Hodge asked Oliver if the agreement with fund managers have been superseded post-FoFA and if the current ...

AFA gets an audience with O'Dwyer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... ongoing debate around the removal of grandfathered commissions was an "overreaction", with trail commissions contributing little to the overall income of financial advice practices in reality. At the 2018 Association of Financial Advisers' National Roadshow ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... and remuneration arrangements. What's worrying for consumers is that they remain loyal to unsuitable products with little or no benefit thanks to poor advice, and complex information attached to high margin products, the report said. By mid-2020 ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... judge that the UK economy currently has a very limited degree of slack. Unemployment is low and is projected to fall a little further. In the MPC's central projection, therefore, a small margin of excess demand emerges by late 2019 and builds thereafter ...

Financial literacy in females continues to lag

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... higher levels of financial literacy. It was highest among full-time employees and lowest for the unemployed. "There is little evidence of an association between region of residence and financial literacy, but there are large differences by labour force ...