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Retirement living advice is an opportunity: Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
On the back of the aged care Royal Commission recently announced, financial advisers should delve deeper into the retirement living conversation with clients, according to a technical services expert. Speaking at yesterday's Challenger Financial ...

Government establishes aged care Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... out because those perpetrating the abuse are someone they trusted and were reliant on, such as a relative or friend. Yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he will ask the Governor General to establish a Royal Commission into the aged care sector. ...

Centuria REIT sees $755m off-market takeover

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... Industrial REIT (CIP) for a combination of cash and PLG securities. PLG submitted a non-binding and indicative proposal yesterday. For each CIP unit, PLG is offering 33 cents in cash and 3.5 PLG shares. Following a 100% acquisition, PLG will become the ...

WAM Capital commences LIC takeover bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... opened a month-long offer to shareholders of a LIC that it wants to take over, with bidder's statements distributed yesterday. Last month WAM Capital said it would attempt to take over a listed invested Wealth Defender Equities (WDE) managed by Perennial ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
Yesterday's European Central Bank's (ECB) Governing Council meeting would have been a big ho-hum were it not for some minor, albeit significant, tweaks in the bank's outlook. As expected, the ECB left interest rates unchanged - the benchmark ...

CommInsure misled FOS: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... claimant's dispute by deliberately withholding medical information and delaying the process, the Royal Commission heard yesterday afternoon. Counsel assisting Rowena Orr turned her focus to CBA's life insurance subsidiaries CommInsure and Colonial ...

AMP, CBA respond to record class action bid

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... $500 million that was unfairly deducted from superannuation fund accounts. Launching its Get Your Super Back campaign yesterday, Slater and Gordon alleged CBA-owned super fund Colonial First State and AMP Super failed to obtain competitive cash interest ...

Freedom sold life insurance to intellectually disabled man: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... and only cancelled the policy after several instances of correspondence with his family, the Royal Commission heard yesterday. Giving testimony at the second day of life insurance hearings, Grant Stewart told the Commission how Freedom sold life insurance ...

How much your advice business will be worth in 2023

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... held in managed accounts in Australia according to an Institute of Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) survey released yesterday. The sector grew 30% in the last year.

ASIC to ramp up trustee visits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... pay trustees more periodic visits. Presenting a regulatory update at the AIST Super Investment Conference? in Cairns yesterday, ASIC senior executive leader of investment managers and superannuation Jane Eccleston highlighted some major initiatives superannuation ...