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CommInsure income protection off the menu

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... next step in its integration of CommInsure Life. AIA and CommInsure came together under a Joint Cooperation Agreement in November 2019. AIA's Priority Protection will now be the income protection offering for the joint insurers. Priority Protection will ...

AIA income protection premiums jump

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... address these challenges, the first move Nippon Life made was to amend its income protection policies. KPMG research from November 2019 found that profitability in life risk insurance in Australia had dropped to the extent the industry is now loss-making. ...

AMPFPA action progresses, associations merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... counsel that any action against AMP would be costly and extremely protracted. Macdonald has met with AMP four times since November to discuss possible solutions but said there has been little progress, he said. "Most of our members who are staying want ...

Viridian opens new offices

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
In some pre-holiday spending, Viridian Advisory over 20 new offices in November, and is looking to launch a mobile app in 2020, says chief executive Glenn Calder. The new locations will house advisers that Viridian picked up last year when it acquired ...

Vanguard firms up super team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... manager roles. His appointment comes after Vanguard announced it had appointed Michael Lovett to head the super team in November last year. Lovett left his role on Vanguard's Financial Adviser Services team in the US to relocate to Australia and head ...

Industry fund names new investment chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... investments for Media Super following the resignation of Norman Zhang after just two years in the role. Zhang was appointed in November 2017 as general manager, investments from Frontier Advisors. McQueen will take over from Zhang on February 21, having ...

J.P. Morgan wins custody mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... BT Financial Group's advice business, joined Xplore in September. He made his intentions for the company clear in November, telling Financial Standard he is focusing on bringing together Xplore's four businesses - the platform, responsible superannuation ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) GDP growth forecasts - published in its Statement on Monetary Policy (released in November 2019) - of 2.25% at the end of 2019; 2.75% in 2020; and, 3% in 2021. The second headline was from today's The Australian ...

UniSuper on climate chopping block

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... vanguard of sustainable investment." UniSuper has released number of updates on its climate change policy, most recently in November of last year. The Climate risk and our investments report outlined that the fund encourages the companies it is invested ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... research, the top 10 geared retirement and superannuation funds achieved returns in excess of 50% in the 12 months to November 2019, as a bull run in financial markets and some fortunate timing propelled funds with additional financial exposure to the ...