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Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... the new parent companies will enjoy the lower cost of capital, together with a longer-term investment horizon. KPMG actuarial and financial risk partner Hoa Bui said: "From a channel perspective it remains to be seen whether Australia will finally see ...

Schroders chief steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 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 ...

VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... He previously worked at Pacific Life Re Australia as a pricing and client strategy analyst, and at Rice Warner as an actuarial analyst. At VanEck, he will build quantitative models for portfolio management and investment performance analytics and attribution ...

Wealth fintech strengthens leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... customer experience to their clients," Thom said. Last month the firm struck a partnership with Milliman, a leading actuarial platform. The relationship is set to see the two firms combine to build advice solutions, with artificial intelligence, machine ...

Franklin Templeton appoints two distribution heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... is a CFA charter holder and prior to starting at CFS in 2012, she was a Wills Towers Watson investment consultant and actuarial analyst. She starts in the newly-created role on July 2. FTI has also promoted the head of its Australian alternatives business ...

AFA seeks overhaul of proposed education standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... least six subjects in accounting, finance, financial planning, economics, law or tax. The AFA also believes mathematics, actuarial studies and psychology degrees should be included as related fields. Meanwhile, those with a financial planning degree ...

Wealth fintech partners with Milliman

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Milliman data platform ensures that we deliver world beating digital decision making and advice at scale, with an enviable actuarial pedigree," he said. The partnership comes at a time when Ignition Wealth is growing its European presence, opening a ...

AustralianSuper exec makes next top CIO list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... career as an analyst at National Asset Management in 1999, while still studying a bachelor of commerce in finance and actuarial studies at the University of Melbourne. Within three years, he had jumped to an investment director role at Hastings Funds ...

PIMCO and Allianz begin hiring spree for new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... Allianz are launching a new Australian retirement income business and recruiting 50 roles in distribution, technology, actuarial, legal, operations, compliance, marketing and customer experience. The new business, Allianz Retire+ Powered by PIMCO (Allianz ...

Link Group names Fund Solutions chief

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... Focus Investment Management, head of research and statistics at the Investment Funds Association of Australia and an actuarial consultant at MIRA Consultants. Khoury said: "I'm delighted to be joining Link with its enviable track record of growing ...