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Link suffers in COVID environment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
Link Group has posted disappointing FY20 results across the board weighed down by tough trading conditions and increased regulatory costs. Compared to last year Link posted a 12% fall in statutory net profit, a 27% fall in operating net profit after ...

HESTA awards three-year mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
HESTA has awarded a three -year mandate to an administrator following a competitive tender process. Link Group has been reappointed to provide the $53 billion super fund with retirement and superannuation solutions. The mandate is for an initial three ...

Link Group hires new chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
An insurance giant's chief executive has snagged the top job at Link Group, as John McMurtrie announces his retirement in early 2021. Vivek Bhatia is currently the Asia Pacific chief executive of $14.8 billion market cap QBE Insurance Group, after being ...

New chief risk officer at Maple-Brown Abbott

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... for six months. Prior to joining Maple-Brown Abbott, McNulty spent over three years working in risk and compliance at Link Group. Maple-Brown Abbott also announced Wendy Cox will be joining the firm in a newly created head of finance and human resources ...

Media Super names chief operating officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... Elise van der Heyde, as chief operating officer ahead of the proposed merger with the Cbus. Van der Heyde joins from Link Group where she was head of product and strategy. She also previously served as a senior change management consultant at Cbus, prior ...

Link feels impact of COVID-19

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
The early release of super scheme has seen more than 5% of the accounts Link Group administers close. It comes as the group rolls out optional pay cuts to its leadership team. In a presentation to the Macquarie Australian Investors Conference yesterday ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... are that larger funds - for different reasons - are delivering better member outcomes," she said. The debate came as Link Group revealed it too was expecting more mergers to emanate from the pandemic, in an investor update to the Macquarie Australia ...

Financial services boards overpaid: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... 10 highest remuneration-to-market-cap ratio boards among Australia's largest companies include the likes of AMP, Link Group and Challenger. The firm's inaugural ASX-100 Board of Directors Report, uses data from November 2019 to detail the key ...

Early access nightmare for administrators

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... hardship is already available, dealing with such volumes of members accessing this option all at once is unprecedented. Link Group chief executive John McMurtrie told Financial Standard applying the early access provision cannot be compared to the implementation ...

Former Link Fund Solutions operations lead in new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... continue to provide the support and high service levels that you have come to expect from us," Hammerson said. Separately, Link Group recently conducted the first virtual shareholder meeting as part of its response to COVID-19. "As governments and businesses ...