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HSBC quietly exits financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... off MLC Advice, along with its platform, superannuation and asset management units. In October 2017, ANZ offloaded its pension and investments arm and four aligned dealer groups under the OnePath brand to IOOF Holdings. RI Advice, Millennium3, Financial ...

Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Aviva Investors, the $654 billion asset management arm of the global Aviva group, has tapped in a former Macquarie and Mercer senior executive to lead its Asian institutional sales. Tom Clapham is now Aviva Investors' head of institutional sales ...

Leave dividend imputation system as is: Plato

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... less mature are largely dominated by younger, accumulation phase members with a relatively small proportion number of pension members, Hamson said. "These growing funds will be paying significant net tax to the government since the vast bulk of their ...

US investment giant acquires global fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... paid $440 million for a majority stake in Hermes Investment Management. The interest was acquired from the UK's BT Pension Scheme which will retain a 29.5% stake in Hermes. An additional 10.5% interest was placed into an employee benefit trust by ...

CIPR framework timely but questions remain

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... and commends it for factoring in circumstances often overlooked - member needs and preferences, eligibility for the Age Pension and cognitive decline. But there are still a number of drawbacks, SuperEd chair Jeremy Duffield said. One is that CIPRs don't ...

Macquarie shuffles infrastructure debt leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... infrastructure finance at Dresdner Kleinwort. Humphrey joined the MIDIS team in 2013, bringing extensive experience working with pension funds and insurance companies across a range of disciplines as a former actuary. "Kit and I are very excited to be ...

Software provider wins European asset management mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
A European asset management giant has signed a long-term contract with an ASX-listed wealth management and funds administration software provider. Legal and General Unit Trust Mangers (UTM), has signed a long-term contract with Bravura Solutions, with ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... have children earlier, she said. They also have a shorter working life and the majority (98%) end up receiving the Age Pension once they retire. Campo said about 80% of members work in a high risk commercial construction environment, and the insurance ...

Efficiency and transparency drive client satisfaction during life claims: Beddoes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... According to the report, less than four in 10 senior Australians are satisfied with the application process for the Age Pension, with 88% of the 4500 respondents indicating they were dissatisfied with the forms and processes involved in applying for ...

FASEA names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... years' experience in financial services regulation and has previously held roles with the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors, the Victorian Financial Institutions Commission and KPMG. He is the current chair of APRA's Superannuation ...