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Phone life insurance sales 'hawking' customers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
The financial services Royal Commission exposed more boiler room sales tactics of call centre staff selling life insurance which drove poor behaviour and a sales-driven culture, and effectively breached anti-hawking provisions. Select AFSL managing ...

Queensland industry funds merge

HARRISON WORLEY AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
Sunsuper is set to merge with a $2.5 billion industry fund in early 2019. In a joint statement, Sunsuper and AustSafe Super have signed a Successor Fund Transfer Deed. Both established 30 years ago, AustSafe is the super fund for rural and regional ...

Mercantile takeover of private equity fund moves ahead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Mercantile OFM is moving towards the acquisition of all shares in a private equity-focused listed investment company (LIC). In an announcement to the ASX, IPE directors unanimously recommended shareholders accept the offer in the absence of a superior ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
The banking and financial services Royal Commission has unearthed the unethical practices and incentives of life insurers selling policies over the phone at the expense of the most vulnerable customers living in remote communities. ASIC Indigenous Outreach ...

HSBC quietly exits financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
HSBC Australia is shuttering its retail financial advice division. The closure follows a strategic review and HSBC Australia did not disclose how many staff members are affected. A HSBC spokesperson said: "We have ceased offering retail financial planning ...

Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Aviva Investors, the $654 billion asset management arm of the global Aviva group, has tapped in a former Macquarie and Mercer senior executive to lead its Asian institutional sales. Tom Clapham is now Aviva Investors' head of institutional sales ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Who better to talk about trade than the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In its latest report the WTO put into perspective the goings-on in the on-going global war on trade. To wit: "A total of 39 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies ...

Super fund chair appointed to NSW Generations Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
The chair of a $42 billion government superannuation fund and a former RBA Governor are joining the advisory board of New South Wales' new sovereign wealth fund. The state has also appointed its first chief economist. State Super chair Nicholas ...

AI and avatars set to alter wealth management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
The latest innovation in banking and wealth management involves a New Zealand artificial intelligence firm, one of UBS' regional chief investment officers and IBM. UBS has partnered with New Zealand AI company FaceMe to produce a digital version ...

Trade-off needed on existing adviser standards: Fox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
The former chief executive of the Association of Financial Advisers believes a practical trade-off is required in order for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to meet its "mutually exclusive" goals for increasing industry professionalism. ...