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Life insurance satisfaction declines

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
New Roy Morgan research shows the satisfaction of life and risk insurance policy holders has dropped 1.8% to 67.5% in the past year. While the findings show a drop, satisfaction levels are up from 66.3% three years ago and five of the 13 largest funds ...

Active winning out in down markets: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
Despite the rising prominence of passive strategies, active management remains a cornerstone of Australian investment. This is the key finding of new research from the 2016 MFS Active Management Sentiment report, conducted by CoreData based on a survey ...

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
Customer expectations have irrevocably shifted in the era of "service aggregation" and super funds ignore this at their peril, according to Telesign chief executive Aled Miles. Speaking at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference ...

Australian-first fund exceeds target

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
The Watermark Global Leaders Fund has exceeded its minimum funding target in the early stages of its IPO roadshow. The LIC, which is Australia's first locally-managed global market neutral fund, has achieved beyond the $40 million minimum as a result ...

SPDR fund awarded highest Lonsec rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
State Street Global Advisors' SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund (STW) has been awarded a "Highly Recommended (Index)" rating from Lonsec. STW is Australia's largest exchange traded fund (ETF) with $2.8 billion AUM and is used by retail and institutional investors ...

Misaligned expectations advisers' biggest threat

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
The misalignment of investor and adviser expectations is one of the greatest threats facing financial advisers around the world, according to research from Natixis Global Asset Management. Comparison between the Natixis Individual Investor Survey and ...

Omega hires Vanguard, NAB vets

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
Omega Global Investors has appointed a portfolio manager and an investment research analyst. Prior to Omega, portfolio manager Evelyne Meier was a quantitative analyst at Triple 3 Investment Management and a senior analyst at Vanguard. Omega co-founder ...

Life insurance revenues down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
The total assets held by life insurers has dropped 23.2% over the past twelve months, as demonstrated by APRA's latest life insurance performance statistics. APRA's report for the September quarter shows total assets fell from $293.5 billion to $225.5 ...

Contango LIC chair departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
The chair of Contango Income Generator has decided against seeking re-election. In an ASX statement, the board thanked Ian Ferres for his tenure as chair and his contribution to the successful listing of the company in 2015. The statement continued ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...