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AMP hires growth lead for super, investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
AMP will soon have a director for growth and customer solutions join its super and investments leadership team, hiring a former BT head of product. Julie Slapp will join the business on November 25 in the newly created role, tasked with developing and ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... Schroders said investors were committed to their long-term investment strategy (45%) and believed active managers should help them outperform passive in the current environment (61.3%). Similarly, 72.5% of advisers agreed active managers were better ...

CSLR warns adviser levy will balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... million in compensation during the first five months of operation. The total levy estimate, which was calculated with the help of actuarial firm Finity, is expected to be lodged with parliament when it resumes sitting early next year. Some of the common ...

Operational risk reserve targets trimmed for larger funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... (FUM) will need to target 0.20%, while those with more than $165 billion will need to target a minimum of 0.175%. This will help them to avoid over reserving. The 0.25% ORFR target will remain for funds with less than $30 billion in assets. In making ...

Advisers share winning intergenerational wealth strategies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... only one knowing what's happening," she said. "I know that's true for a lot of older couples, but I think it's important to help the wife understand. They're intelligent people; they just may not have the financial acumen because they haven't had that ...

Delaying DBFO imposes 'generational' consequences

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... financial advice needs of Australians are not being met. More than 40% of Australians want personalised advice that could help them make informed decisions for specific insurance products, and under the reform, life insurers will be able to achieve that ...

Down but not out: Busting defined benefit myths

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
Many see defined benefit (DB) funds as dead - dinosaurs of the retirement world. Nevertheless, they're important to the retirement ecosystem, according to Challenger institutional client solutions director Meher Edibam. While most DB schemes are closed ...

Dinimus appoints new head of distribution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... base to build on," he said. Credlin added that he looks forward to working the team to expand investor relationships and help bring "Dinimus' distinctive credit solutions to a broader audience." Credlin's hire follows GP staking private equity ...

Jupiter AM awards distribution mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... region. The £51.3 billion ($100bn) investment manager hired Melbourne-based Institutional Distribution Partners (IDP) to help it grow internationally and bid for local insto money. Singapore-based Richard Hooper, who is the head of Middle East, Africa ...

Australian equities rise, but global markets preferred: Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... especially relative to long-dated bonds, which is still an important risk to manage," Morningstar said. "Second, cash should help buffer from any future volatility resulting from a fall in equity markets. And third, cash provides ample liquidity to take ...