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Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
Recruitment activity in the superannuation industry has surged as many want to hire professionals skilled in the areas of data, ESG and risk, Kaizen Recruitment data reveals. Less than 5% of superannuation fund executives told the specialist recruiter ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
MLC Life Insurance, Challenger and TAL were big winners at this year's Plan For Life insurance awards, recognised for their innovative products and offerings. For health and wellness initiatives, MLC Life won four categories: the Overall Health ...

Rice Warner hires fintech, product data lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
Rice Warner has appointed a head of fintech and product data from CommInsure/AIA Australia to expand the firm's technology footprint. Anthony Saliba will focus on developing client solutions across retirement, advice and technology for the actuarial ...

Institutional mandates spring back to life

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Superannuation funds are starting to appoint external mandates again after a COVID-19-induced lull, says Pinnacle's managing director Ian Macoun. Pinnacle Investment Management raked in $1.7 billion of net inflows from institutional clients in the three ...

Chief economist update: Not out of the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The US has reversed its biggest economic contraction in history with the sharpest recovery on record. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the country's GDP increased at annualised rate of 33.1% in the September 2020 quarter following ...

Chief economist update: Europe, we have a problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Just as Victorian Premier Dan Andrews toasted each and every Victorian with caramel-iced doughnuts and a top-shelf bottle of Starward whiskey to celebrate the end of Melbourne's lockdown, European governments -- one after the other -- have been ...

Frontier Advisors eyes international clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
The asset consultant is looking for overseas clients, and hopes Aussie platforms will make it easier to work with local emerging institutional clients. Frontier Advisors is the second-largest asset consultant in the not-for-profit superannuation funds. ...

Bell Direct hires for new service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Bell Direct has appointed two former CommSec executives to its new service catering to its increasing number of high value clients. Ryan Phillips has joined Bell Direct Advantage from his role as executive manager broking and Markets at CommSec. As ...

Chief economist update: A V, a W and an L

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The latest results from the monthly Markit Economics PMI (purchasing managers' index) draws a picture of the three shapes of the economic recovery or otherwise. The letter V. Masked or unmasked, the IHS/Markit flash US composite PMI continues to ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
ASIC chair James Shipton has stepped aside pending the outcome of a review into his remuneration arrangements. Tabling the 2019/20 ASIC annual report today and addressing the Senate Estimates committee, Shipton flagged certain relocation expenses incurred ...