Misperceptions about IP cover a red flag for life industry

Nearly half of consumers who currently have income protection insurance believe they would be covered in the event of job loss, new research from CoreData has found. The research, based …

Struggling Australians still hesitant to drawdown on their retirement savings

One in two Australians struggling with household bills admit if they were eligible to access their super early, they would be more concerned about reducing their retirement wealth than about …

COVID-19 blow to gender employment parity doesn’t tell the whole story

Women are more likely than men to have lost their job due to COVID-19, but the pandemic could drive greater employment parity in the long-term, CoreData’s latest research has found. …

Australians postpone mortgage pain as value of home loan repayment deferrals mounts

Nearly one in five Australians with a mortgage expect to freeze repayments in the next 12 months, revealing the extent to which repayment holidays will help many homeowners avoid the …

One in five believe avoiding a recession is worth 106,000 lives

More than one in five Australians are willing to see tens of thousands of their compatriots fall victim to COVID-19 if it means the country will avoid going into a …

Chicken Little, ostriches and the real role of leaders

On June 4 and 5 the heads of leading financial planning licensees met in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney for the annual Professional Planner Licensee Summit. It’s fair to …

How serious are you about feedback?

How serious are you about feedback? Imagine if your ongoing employment in a company was contingent on receiving positive feedback from your peers and subordinates. Imagine if your business took …

CoreData Announces The 2018 Australian Licensee Award Winners

CoreData Announces The 2018 Australian Licensee Award Winners Changes to adviser loyalty, satisfaction and needs have driven significant swings for some licensee’s in the Annual CoreData Licensee Survey – highlighting …

Home loan growth dives – has APRA gone too far?

The release of the latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) monthly banking statistics show annualised monthly growth in home loans has dropped to 2.25 per cent – the lowest growth …

Five ‘moments of truth’ when licensees can combat the rise of the machines

All licensees look essentially the same, and they’re all wrapped up doing things that add little value to the real business of giving advice. GPS Wealth managing director Grahame Evans …

Don’t Let The Royal Commission Do All The Talking

Well then. What a whirlwind the royal commission’s public hearings on financial advice were. Heads rolled – not least of all, the AMP chairman and CEO – and billions of …

A game-changer for ethics code-monitoring bodies

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has proposed a change to the new financial adviser professional standards legislation to allow code monitoring bodies to proactively collect information from advisers …

Behavioural analytics at work

Getting a good grip on behavioural analytics can increase productivity and improve the service planners deliver to their clients. But you first need to know what you’re looking for, and …

Better together: why the ‘super collective’ is the future for advisers and licensees

Since the early 2000s when Financial Services Reform (FSR) introduced the concept of the Australian financial services licence (AFSL), licensees and advice businesses have generally developed as separate entities. Advice …

The royal commission and the damage done

When the royal commission ends I will have a new job for Kenneth Hayne. I am going to pay him to record Australian poems for me to listen to. Not …