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TAL completes acquisition of Westpac Life

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia Pty Limited has completed its acquisition of Westpac's life insurance arm, almost one year after it was announced. From today all of Westpac's life insurance business and existing policies will transfer over to TAL Group. ...

Portfolio holdings disclosure rules "feeblest on the planet": Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... the values and weightings of individual assets. They also only have to provide the total value and weighting of the asset class. For unlisted equity, just the name of the fund manager is needed. "Currently, this allows some super fund investors to play ...

KPMG spotlights super's biggest challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
KPMG has flagged ESG, tax governance, financial crime, adaptive investment operations and regulatory risks as some of its key considerations for the super sector in 2022. According to KPMG's latest Super Insights 2022 report, last year climate change ...

ASIC issues first DDO stop orders

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... companies, UGC Global Alpha Limited and UGC Global Alpha Fund Limited. RES is prohibited from issuing interests in PPM Units - a class of interests in RES Investment Fund - as well as providing a product disclosure statement about PPM Units or providing ...

Palisade Real Assets in UK acquisition

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... Under the acquisition, EMSL chief executive Darren Williams will join the Palisade Real Assets team. "EMSL provides best-in-class asset management services to clients to ensure that their assets perform better and increase in value as a result of our ...

Suncorp agrees to super class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
Suncorp is set to pay $33 million to settle a class action brought by superannuation members in 2019 over conflicted remuneration paid to financial advisers. The class action was brought by William Roberts Lawyers in June 2019 on behalf of Suncorp Super ...

JBWere appoints head of investment funds research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
JBWere has named Chris Karapalidis as its head of investment funds research. Karapalidis will lead the team responsible for identifying high quality externally managed strategies across all asset classes and the construction of model portfolios, reporting ...

Fidelity appoints APAC head of equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... Asian fixed income, overseeing US$25 billion in client assets. In the new role, Dropkin is charged with driving best-in-class investment performance in Asia Pacific, Fidelity said. He will also be focused on ensuring sustainability principles continue ...

Franklin Templeton names new head of Australia

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... and experienced team. We are well positioned to meet a variety of challenges in our industry through our breadth of world class specialised investment managers with expertise across asset classes, geographies, and investment vehicles," Walsh concluded. ...

HUB24 posts record platform inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2022
... and European markets. This update comes after HUB24 recently announced the appointment of Tim Steele as chief executive of Class Limited, which the group acquired in February. Steele will join the HUB24 group executive reporting to the group's chief ...