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Super body opposes member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... earlier legislation and the impact of these changes must be assessed before more complicated arrangements are introduced." AMP agreed, noting the "compressed implementation deadline" meant customers did not have enough time to make an informed decision ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... Currie's Australia Real Income strategy delivered 18.8% in the year to June 2019. BlackRock Equitised Long Short (17.5%), AMP Capital Sustainable Share Fund (17.1%), Regal Australian Long Short Equity Fund (16.9%), ECP Asset Management All Cap (16.6%) ...

MetLife expands retail distribution team

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
MetLife Australia has announced two key appointments to its retail distribution team, recruiting from MLC Life and AMP. Former MLC Life head of product John Ashton has been appointed head of retail product, managing product strategy and strengthening ...

CFS hires executive manager of insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2019
... technical manager of group insurance at AIA Australia for over eight years. Prior to that, she was an assistant product manager at AMP and portfolio manager at MetLife. Separately, CFS recently saw the departure of executive general manager Linda Elkins ...

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... Initiative, looked at impact-washing in light of the European Union's new ecolabel for environmentally friendly investments. AMP Capital head of ESG investment research Ian Woods believes impact-washing poses a serious threat to the impact investing ...

AMP Life sale blocked

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
AMP has confirmed the sale of its life insurance business to Resolution Life is highly unlikely to go ahead. The institution said the sale of AMP Life is highly unlikely to proceed on the current terms do to challenges in meeting the condition precedent ...

ESG options outperform in the short term: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... funds were: HESTA - Eco-Pool (10.3%), UniSuper Sustainable High Growth (9.8%), Media Super - Sustainable Future Shares (9.1%), AMP SignatureSuper - Responsible Investment Leaders International Share (8.6%) and UniSuper - Sustainable Balanced 8.7%. The ...

AMP Advice executive joins AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
The head of corporate development at AMP Advice has taken on a new role with the Association of Financial Advisers. Robert Coulter will join the association as general manager, partnerships. AFA chief executive Philip Kewin said Coulter's extensive ...

New features for My AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
The 650,000 clients using AMP's My AMP wealth management website will now have access to a range of new features. The new features include an interactive goals timeline where clients can identify their goals and source educational materials and access ...

Industry funds surge ahead in satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... fund's performance than Hostplus' members. The lowest satisfaction for major super funds beyond the 12 best performers were AMP (49.3%), Asgard (50.9%) and BT (52.2%), Roy Morgan said. Gainers and losers Catholic Super members' satisfaction with its ...