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Challenger dominates annuity market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... annuity sales will soon reach the average levels experienced throughout the normal age pension exemption years," said Richard Howes, Challenger chief executive, life.

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... manufacturing jobs, blaming high costs due the appreciating Australian dollar and within a week celebrity union leader Paul Howes was calling for 'buy Australian' incentives. The Greens and other parts of the union movement quickly followed suit demanding ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... life insurers or industry funds issuing annuities but I think they have to do their risk management a bit better." Richard Howes, chief executive of Challenger Life, said there is a perfectly adequate global market for insuring against annuities with ...

Cooper starts new role at Challenger

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... "policy and advocacy type role" that will compliment the company's growing annuities business. Cooper will report to Richard Howes, head of Challenger Life, the division that runs the annuities business. In the year to June, Challenger wrote $2.2 billion ...

Shareholders vent fury over exec pay

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... strong performance. Chief executive Dominic Stevens' pay packet went up by roughly 65 per cent to $6.6 million while Richard Howes, head of Challenger Life, in which the annuities business is housed, saw his pay rise by 62 per cent to $5.7 million. However ...

Funds should show benefit projections: IAA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... for the estimated pension amounts to give people a better idea of their standard of living in retirement," said Melinda Howes, chief executive of the Institute of Actuaries. On how to calculate investment returns, more than 90 per cent said assumptions ...

ASIC super expert joins ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... Melbourne. Meanwhile, David Graus will remain as general manager policy and industry practice. Du Pre-Alba replaces Melinda Howes, the previous director of policy at ASFA and now chief executive of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. "One of Louise's ...

New insurance benchmarks on the cards

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... 'graduated' which will involve the smoothing and filling in of data, said the Institute. "It's well overdue," said Melinda Howes, chief executive of the Institute. "Unlike 20 years ago where people really had to look at life tables to price [products] ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week, Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers' Union and trustee of the $30 billion industry fund Australian Super, said ...

Govt unveils more super reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... retirees and focus their efforts on being the longevity insurer for Australia's older retirees aged 75 plus," said Melinda Howes, chief executive of IAA.