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NAB launches online direct insurance product

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched a life insurance product that consumers can apply for online. The NAB Essential Life protection can be applied for through a few simple steps and provides immediate cover to consumers. NAB retail wealth product ...

Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Spending big on advertising may build brand awareness, but it has no effect on membership growth, according to research by CoreData. In a comprehensive study of how consumers view super funds, CoreData found that focusing on fees and services is a surer ...

FPA turns to social media on Financial Planning Week

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
This year's Financial Planning Week by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) will turn to social media as a strategy to encourage Australians to seek advice. The FPA will be answering to consumers' questions on financial advice through the 'Ask an ...

Fortnum completes ANZ buy-out

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Fortnum has become of Australia's largest independently-owned Australian Financial Services Licensees after completing a multi-million dollar deal to buy-out ANZ's 20% stake in the company. Fortnum's management, staff and financial advisers raised the ...

Better use of client information essential to adviser success

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Financial advisers have more information about their clients than almost any other industry and they should be using it to improve their service, netwealth executive director Matt Heine said. "Throughout the fact finding process we collect more information ...

Mercer appoints two independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Mercer has appointed three new directors to its Australian entity boards, including two new independent non-executive directors. Melissa Babbage will join the Mercer Investments (Australia) Limited (MIAL) board, while Jan Swinhoe will join both the ...

Zurich extends daily data feeds offer

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Users of the AdviserLogic platform will have access to Zurich Financial Services' daily data feed service as a result of a partnership between the two companies. The service automatically updates client and policy information to the financial planning ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has revealed that Platinum Asset Management will be its main sponsor for its 2014 Professionals Congress in Adelaide in November. In an interview with Financial Standard in April, Platinum co-founder and managing ...

FoFA future uncertain as Palmer threatens to join opposition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
The government's efforts to give financial advisers more certainty by passing some of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms through regulations could be in vain as Clive Palmer suggested his party, Palmer United, does not support the measures. ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Countries must dramatically rethink strategies for avoiding and dealing with financial crises, the Bank for International Settlements says, urging far more focus on fighting debt. The Swiss-based BIS -- dubbed the central bankers' central bank -- has ...