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Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... layer." Similarly, he argued that the level of transparency afforded by the Xero platform was also useful for both risk assessment and ongoing cover adjustments for insurance. "You can interrogate that data and assess risk but also regular entry points ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... enough to protect them financially, creating a false sense of security. "The risk is obviously that without a personal assessment of needs, people can find themselves in dire straits if something goes wrong, finding out the hard way that they are mis-insured ...

Most life insurance consumers open to genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
A majority of consumers would accept genetic testing for detecting life-threatening conditions as part of their risk assessments for life insurance, research found. A recent survey of 134 insurance employees and their personal contacts by global life ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... said so in its 24 July 2014 statement. "The speed and extent to which the OCR will need to rise will depend on the assessment of the impact of the tightening in monetary policy to date, and the implications of future economic and financial data for inflationary ...

Australians making more money from investing than working

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... stories about what's happening to Sydney real estate don't reflect what's happening nationally, even a more subdued assessment on national house prices added to this year's 10% average super fund return fund means that in 2014-15 the investment income ...

Companies failing to meet ATO benchmark

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... and companies will be expected to comply or explain why they are not doing so. KPMG has carried out continuous self-assessment surveys, both at Australian and international level on companies' approach to tax risk management and governance. Relatively ...

American IRAs not super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... means any payment from an IRA will have no special tax treatment in Australia under Division 305 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Hallinan said if an IRA payment was made to an Australian superannuation fund by the member it will be treated as ...

AZ NGA acquires $180m CBA advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... here is that firms are always trying to better themselves, and there are tangible things you can look at to make that assessment."

TAL to invest $150 million in adviser support

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... invest $150 million in adviser support services. Specifically, these include: adviser education programs; online pre-assessment requests for review by TAL underwriters; client insurance data feeds which can be automatically uploaded to XPLAN and COIN ...