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ClearView appoints three new BDMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... financial advice and reinsurance. Prior to joining ClearView, Dowling spent five years in wealth product distribution at Macquarie, where he specialised in life insurance. Monroe also sports more than 16 years in the financial services industry, having ...

New Spring FG SMSF platform opens

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... Swimming Between the Flags." The platforms investment options include government guaranteed cash management accounts from Macquarie Bank and term deposits from more than 20 different Australian banks, credit unions and building societies integrated with ...

Majority of Masterfunds see losses

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... companies reporting small or modest reductions in their MasterFund businesses, according to Plan For Life research. Macquarie group was the only company to see substantial growth (19.9%), following an internal transfer last quarter of $10.4 billion of ...

Challenger, AMP come out on top in difficult managed funds year

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... quarter." Once again, all of the leading managers reported decreases in FUM over the past 12 months; the only exception was Macquarie (up 19.7%), but Plan for Life attributed this to "the $10.4 billion internal transfer... into their Wrap Solutions platform ...

ANZ rings in insurance updates

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... its new Grow Wrap next week, something financial advisers have been demanding for some time. ANZ has partnered with Macquarie to produce Grow Wrap, and it will have ASX-listed securities, 180 managed funds as well as several cash options. "The main factor ...

TAL appoints GM Health Services

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... product and strategy at CommInsure from January to March 2016, and prior to this she spent more than seven years at Macquarie where she held roles such as head of underwriting, claims and insurance proposition and head of underwriting and claims. Commenting ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... leader was born in Melbourne and primarily went to school there before moving to Sydney in his early teens and attending Macquarie University to complete its actuarial program. From there Knox worked for the institution known as National Mutual - which ...

Life insurers paid $6.9bn in claims in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... day in 2015. The numbers are aggregated from AIA Australia, AMP, Asteron/Suncorp, BT, ClearView, CommInsure, Hannover, Macquarie, MetLife, MLC, OnePath, TAL and Zurich. They do not include the 14 other non-mainstream life insurers. Almost $2.9 billion ...

Platforms rise by $51.4bn in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... were down 12.7% from $126.3bn to $110.3bn. All major companies reported growth in their funds under management led by Macquarie (38.9%), Commonwealth/Colonial (7.1%), AMP (6.9%) and BT (6.8%). Macquarie's large jump was mainly due to an internal transfer ...

Retail managed funds rose strongly in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... companies reported increases in their retail funds under management with some of the better performances recorded by Macquarie (38.5%), AMP (6.3%), BT (6.2%), Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State (5.7%), Perpetual (4.8%) and Mercer (3.8%). Plan For ...