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Sydney world's strongest luxury real estate market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
New research from Knight Frank has revealed that Sydney is the hottest market in the world for luxury real estate this year. Knight Frank forecasted how much the prices of luxury real estate are set to rise in cities around the world in 2021 and 2022. ...

Integrity Life, Will platform partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
Integrity Life has partnered with an affordable online Will-writing platform to encourage more Australians to put one in place. Integrity Life's partnership with Safewill provides a digital platform for its clients to write a Will. "We have the ...

HUB24 appoints chief product officer, director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
The platform has appointed MLC's former group executive, platforms to the inaugural role of chief product officer and added a former Westpac executive to its board. Darren Stevens was in the role at MLC for less than 12 months and was responsible for ...

Padua appoints chair

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
Financial advice technology provider Padua has appointed a chair from the telecommunications industry. Amaysim founder and former chief executive Peter O'Connell will chair the board at Padua. His Amaysim business sold to Optus this year. O'Connell ...

Praemium strengthens distribution efforts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021
A former head of wholesale at Fidelity is joining the platform provider's distribution team. Andrew Mathie is now a regional manager at Praemium, responsible for New South Wales. He brings more than 20 years' experience in wealth management, most notably ...

Ian Silk to leave AustralianSuper

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
The chief executive of Australia's biggest superannuation fund AustralianSuper will step down before the end of the year. Having led the fund since its creation on 1 July 2006, Ian Silk is set to leave the super fund at the end of this year. Chief ...

Insurers dodging Royal Commission reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... insurance). On 10 December2020, the government passed laws that introduced a deferred sales model with a four-day pause between the sale of a principal product or service and the sale of an add-on insurance product. However, on July 8, Treasurer Josh ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

AMP Capital GEFI sold to Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
... Capital's Global Equities and Fixed Income business to Macquarie, with the division valued at $185 million. Under the sale, the global equities and fixed income capabilities will be combined with Macquarie's public investments platform. The total ...

AMP Life CIO moves to HESTA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... officer at AMP Life, followed by a year as deputy chief investment officer at Resolution Life following the separation and sale of AMP's life insurance business. Before joining AMP Life, Brunton spent more than a decade in investment roles at AMP Capital ...