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TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... funds, retirement and life insurance market, founded by Simon Solomon in 1988 as Plan For Life. The group grew from an actuarial consultancy to a research house and in 2010 was acquired by Asset International. In September 2016, Asset International rebranded ...

Member outreach boosts post-merger integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... under a defined benefit scheme in the merger. It's an area of specialisation and a process that requires proper actuarial work to ensure complete benefits are intact and funding levels are right, Brooks pointed out. Employers underwriting these schemes ...

State Super CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... the appointment and oversight of external investment managers and advisers; and leading the internal investment and actuarial team. He joined the fund in August 2015 as head of unlisted assets and alternatives before being shortly promoted to investment ...

Janus Henderson promotes talent

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... and his contribution has been recognised over this period. Dimitri also brings with him strong academic credentials in Actuarial Studies gained at the Australian National University," Sivapalan said. Also commenting, Janus Henderson head of Australia ...

SuperConcepts chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... roles including head of corporate planning and analysis at Citigroup, senior management consultant at A.T Kearney, and actuarial positions at Zurich Financial Services and Royal & SunAlliance. Fenech spoke to Financial Standard about how she left a career ...

Rice Warner warns against culling value-based advice fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... in dollars and not as a percentage of assets - will lead to reduced demand for advice services. Earlier this year the actuarial firm, in partnership with ING, revealed Australians trust financial advisers yet are only willing to pay a maximum of $400 ...

Class enhances XPLAN integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... systems. The new functionality enables users to identify cash transactions such as pension payments, contributions, income, actuarial expenses or property expenses more easily. It builds on the existing integration that enables advisers to access up-to-date ...

Schroders, Lloyds mull wealth venture

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... executive of Schroders Hong Kong, will return to Australia to assume the top position. Cooper's career began as an actuarial analyst in 1992. Prior to joining Schroders, he was head of the actuarial and asset consulting practice for Towers Perrin ...

AMP defends charging dead clients

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... rate by default," AMP said. "Rather, in every scenario, AMP calculates the premiums that it charges to members based on actuarial assessments that reflect the risk for the relevant pool of insureds based on the information available to it."

Boutique manager expands fixed income team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... global fixed income, most of which was spent at Commonwealth Bank's global fixed income derivatives trading. With an actuarial background, he brings strong quantitative skills to the team, Ardea said. Ardea co-founder and principal Ben Alexander ...