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Reinsurance talent runs dry

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... their focus offshore to other markets. While reinsurance employees are comparatively loyal to their firms, analyst and actuary roles are high in demand, according to global finance jobs portal eFinancialCareers, with companies are being forced to expand ...

Super trustee guidelines for retirement estimates

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... required variables, and using the default assumptions. These assumptions are based on the advice of the Australian Government Actuary. Retirement estimate must also set out the mandatory content explaining how the retirement estimate has been calculated ...

MLC internally promotes new group insurance GM

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... Australia for seven years where she held roles including head of risk, planning and analysis, chief risk officer and chief actuary. Beer was also previously director of Tillinghast - Towers Perrin financial services practice. Duncan West, executive general ...

Rice Warner clarifies $11 estimate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... for all new clients will be able to incorporate 'opt-in' processes as part of their normal client management," said the actuary. Rice Warner also supplied its calculations process which involved comparing the cost of a one-off opt-out process and the ...

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... non-compliance, the provision of this level of automation makes SMSF administration more seamless," said Geoff Morley, senior actuary, Bendzulla. Class Super was launched in 2009, designed to provide an SMSF administration platform, covering servers ...

NGS Super sharpens planning focus

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... services. Studdert and Maganic had spent five and 12 years respectively at Mercer, which acts as NGS's administrator and actuary. Both are certified financial planners. NGS plans to complete a merger with UCSuper by early 2012, to create a combined $4.4 ...

Super insurance simplified for funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... "disability superannuation benefit" as stated in tax law. Where broader insurance cover is provided, super funds need an actuary's certificate to work out the deductible portion of the premium. Now that process has been simplified, in some cases removing ...

NGS Super merger too late for tax relief

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... so there's a natural alignment between the two funds, making a merger a rational move." Mercer is the administrator and actuary for NGS and UCS.

Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... billion in the September quarter to $159 million in the December quarter. While the figure sounds enormous, Simon Solomon, actuary for Plan For Life, said it was prone to volatility and could easily reverse itself. But Plan For Life figures also showed ...

AMP positions senior AXA staff

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... company secretary and head of secretariat, reporting to AMP's general counsel Brian Salter. Mike Thornton, group chief actuary and chief risk officer at AXA, is installed as director group risk management at the merged entity, reporting to AMP chief ...