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TAL enhances adviser learning hub

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
Life insurer TAL has added a suite of new courses to its learning hub in an effort to help advisers meet new legislative and educational requirements. TAL Risk Academy added 16 new courses covering superannuation and insurance advice, financial underwriting ...

Record turnout drives Managed Accounts Forum success

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... providers to gain all the know-how needed to successfully implement managed accounts in their business. Master of ceremonies and ABC TV and ESPN sports presenter Stephanie Brantz helped orchestrate a smooth line-up of presentations, which this year featured ...

Managed Accounts Forum draws record crowd

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... Association of Australia, for a full-day attendance. Stephanie Brantz, one of the country's leading TV sports presenters (ABC TV, Channel 9, SBS World), is the event MC. The forum takes place this Thursday, 14 September 2017 at ICC Sydney. Information ...

Budget undermining super: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... world-class superannuation system and Labor will not support it," they said. Shadow Finance Minister Jim Chalmers told the ABC that superannuation is for retirement - not for housing. "[The housing policy announced] was pitifully inadequate because it ...

Financial Standard wins prestigious award

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Financial Standard journalist Alex Burke has been honoured for a series of feature articles on retirement income, winning an award at the Australian Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence. Burke was judged winner of the Markets and Investment category ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... accusation of election rigging given the level of distrust many Americans feel about Hillary. And then, there's this from abc.net.au: "US Election: Could neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump end up president?" For now, forget the economic surveys ...

YBR hits back at Bouris expose

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
Yellow Brick Road has denied suggestions made in an ABC report that shareholders want executive chair Mark Bouris removed from the company. The ABC report aired alleged shareholder concerns about the direction of YBR as well as remuneration arrangements ...

CommInsure under fire again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... this, the release of findings comes in response to further allegations of unethical conduct within CommInsure, aired by the ABC's 7.30 program last night. The report revealed a case in which the family of Peta Outzen, a long-standing CommInsure customer ...

Pinnacle director departs after Wilson acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... also the former chair of Deutsche Bank's private wealth management business for Australia and New Zealand, an ex-director at ABC, the Australian Ballet and Channel Ten and a partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler. Skala's departure follows the news that Wilson ...

Industry fund inks MetLife mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... peace of mind at an affordable price and without reducing disposable income," Lander said. CommInsure was plagued by a joint ABC and Fairfax Media investigation earlier this year and yesterday it reassured members it was taking measures to upgrade its ...