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Generation Life rolls out product enhancements

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... for fortnightly payments, aligning with their Centrelink Age Pension payments or alternating fortnights. Generation Life general manager of retirement solutions Patrick Clarke said: "Our goal at Generation Life is to empower Australians to live the retirement ...

Frontier overhauls research function

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Frontier Advisors is restructuring its research team in a way that will see Andrew Kemp become head of defensive assets and private markets. While technically not a promotion, the overhaul widens Kemp's remit and gives him added responsibilities. ...

Family offices ignoring $3.5tn time bomb: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
Echoing similar findings by UBS, KPMG has found that of the estimated 70% of Australian businesses that are family-run, only 30% have an established succession plan. This comes into focus with a $3.5 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer expected ...

APRA probes super fund payments to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... The regulator is also assessing whether these transactions offered value for money to the fund's members as well as the general appropriateness of these payments. In questioning Cole, Senator Andrew Bragg alluded to a specific instance involving a $2.5 ...

Inflation rises to 6.8%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) has jumped from 6.3% to 6.8%, adding to theories Australians could be in for another rate hike. The latest CPI numbers, released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), exceeded economist predictions of ...

4D Infrastructure welcomes new investment director

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
... Infrastructure. Commenting on the appointment, Shaw said Snelgrove's wealth of experience in listed infrastructure and general market intelligence made him well-suited to the 4D investment team. "Heading into 2023, we continue to see the growing need ...

AMP restructures wealth management, chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... forward." Before AMP, Hartley was chief executive of Sunsuper from 2014 to 2019. Before Sunsuper, he was the executive general manager of corporate and institutional wealth at NAB Wealth from 2009 to 2013; his responsibilities included leading Plum Financial ...

Challenger real estate arm price tag drops

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... assets under management upon completion and is urging shareholders to vote in favour of the acquisition at an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on June 30. Challenger managing director and chief executive Nick Hamilton said: "Challenger will benefit ...

Treasury proposes upping supervisory levies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... individual disability income insurance and improving decision-making through data support. In contrast, levy funding for general insurance dropped from $30.2 million to $29.5 million. The industry faces challenges such as natural disasters, rising reinsurance ...

Melissa Caddick declared dead by coroner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
The fraudster who purported to be a financial adviser to scam upwards of $23 million out of family and friends is likely dead, the inquest has found. That was the key finding delivered by the NSW Coroner yesterday, though the nature of her demise could ...