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Less conflict, more interest: FOFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... insurance outside super, Minister Shorten said there hasn't been the same debate about banning commissions and that further research needs to be done on it. He recognised that not everyone will be happy about the reforms but that, ultimately, codifying ...

Super insurance commission ban not what it seems

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... to make some retail super fund insurance deals competitive with deals in not-for-profit funds. According to Rainmaker Research's 2011 Super Fund Group Insurance Survey, while $52 in annual premium buys a member in an average not-for-profit fund up to ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Active fund managers found it very difficult to beat benchmark performance indexes after fees in the first quarter, research house Morningstar has revealed. Managers investing in large-cap Australian shares were evenly split between those that beat ...

Insurance puts a price on housework

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... under a new insurance product. Suncorp subsidiary, Million Dollar Woman, created Day-to-Day Living Expenses Cover after research found that some 2.1 million women in Australia work unpaid in a domestic environment with little or no financial protection ...

Clients want commissions - AFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Financial planning clients want commissions to remain on life insurance products, according to research by the Association of Financial Advisers. The AFA research, conducted by CoreData and sponsored by AIA Australia, surveyed corporate super and life ...

Indexing warning as ETFs surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... sad thing and not what you should be doing long term in your portfolio," said Long. Deborah Fuhr, global head of ETF Research and implementation strategy at BlackRock, attributed the surge in global flows to increased instability in markets caused by ...

High net worth clients being under advised

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... asking for up front,' said Joe Cappitelli, vice president of financial markets at Dow Jones. Conducted by an independent research firm in October 2010, the study includes responses from 1,287 randomly selected U.S. investors at least 25 years old with ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
ASIC has refused to confirm or deny whether research houses who gave five-star ratings or positive reports on fraud funds Trio Capital and Astarra are being investigated. But industry insiders say the corporate watchdog is conducting a high-level investigation ...

Planners train up for social media regulations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... subscription-based app, 'Insight: Advisor Series', can be accessed online and was launched by Life Insurance Marketing Research Association (LIMRA) and social mediaware firm Socialware. Chad Bockius, chief executive, Socialware said social media will ...

Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
Financial planners relying on research are sitting ducks for legal action in the wake of the Trio Capital superannuation fraud and need to protect themselves, a planner has said. In the case of the Trio Capital fraud, adviser Ross Tarrant's firm Tarrants ...