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Longevity puts focus on trauma insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Improving longevity means insurance will need to cover individuals while they are still alive - not when they die, delegates of last week's Riskstore Living Insurances conference were told. "Cancer rates are going up but this is because of aging. Actual ...

Toolsets by managers, for managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
Global fund management software provider, Impact Investing, builds a strong case on how fund managers can improve their returns and showcase their investment process much easier to prospective investors. Enda Mahoney, the group's new managing director ...

Back to basics: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... year period of time. That is spectacular if you're an investor," he said. "The opportunity we all have is to learn and evolve in our thinking and in our skill sets." He said while there was a lot of knowledge in the marketplace, he always came back to ...

Opes Prime challenges Macq

... contracts for difference (CFDs) and self-managed superannuation fund-related products. "The Wealth Platform will constantly evolve. We already have a range of new products in development." Michelle Baltazar

AXA re-writes individual insurance

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... financial protection, Michael Rogers, said Australia's changing demographic landscape meant insurers needed to constantly evolve. "Our recent census confirms that we are getting older, richer but into more debt. For the first time there are more people ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Socially responsible investing built on the ideas of simply screening out bad investments is naA-ve and doesn't do much more than confuse investors, said McKinsey & Co in a report to clients. "Early approaches simplistically screened out 'sin sectors' ...

Magellan next gen boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
The launch of Magellan Financial Group (MFG) signals the dawn of the next generation of boutique financial services companies that are not just specialist manufacturers but integrated and sustainable businesses. MGF evolved in 2006 from the recapitalised ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
China's joint current account and capital account surpluses mean the current pace of economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, according to a study published in the Australian Economic Review. The report's author, Professor Yu Yongding, director-general ...

Aussie reverse mortgages world's best

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The Australian reverse mortgage sector is in its infancy but our products have evolved so fast they lead the world, said Martin Lynch, director of reverse mortgages at ABN AMRO. "It's only been really the last four years there have been products here ...

Unionised workers only half all industry fund members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
New research shows that industry funds are winning post-super choice, despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the proportion of private sector workers belonging to a union is only 15 per cent. According to the ABS, less than ...