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MetLife expands retail life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... working together to integrate with administrators to reduce claims processing timeframes, and deliver improved member experience via tele-claims and paperless ID solutions.

Macquarie IM acquires equities specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
Macquarie Investment Management is increasing its investment capabilities via the acquisition of a $6 billion specialist asset manager based in Luxembourg. The investment management division of Macquarie Group has entered an agreement to acquire ValueInvest ...

China A-shares to disrupt emerging markets strategies: Robeco

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... downside," Mio said. Mio noted many investors don't know much about the A-share market, even if they're already exposed to China via emerging markets or Asian equity strategies. She said that once the entire market is included in the MSCI EM Index, China's ...

Netwealth partners for engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... 20,000 financial services professionals currently track around $30 billion in assets and more than $5 billion in liabilities via the myprosperity portal. The partnership follows in a long line of successes for Netwealth in recent weeks. In its recent ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... from the Financial Standard feature "Opportunity costs: new approaches to building retirement income." Read the full version via our iPad app.

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... dealer groups, Strategic Insight's latest statistics show. The researcher found that in the decade to 2017, risk products sold via advisers - either independent or aligned to a banking or insurance group - are gradually becoming under threat from direct ...

L1 Capital targets $500m for long short LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... reinvested in the LIC with a voluntary 10-year escrow from the IPO date; and L1's investment team will invest more than $10 million via the IPO with a voluntary 10-year escrow. As per the strategy of the existing (mirrored) fund, short selling will occur ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win, would establish its third multi-strategy fund in Australia - the AIMS Fixed Income Fund. Speaking to Financial ...

Super funds embrace crowdsourced cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... organisations' online systems. Hostplus committed more than $5 million to the platform, in addition to a further $2 million invested via Blackbird Ventures. First State Super has not disclosed the amount it invested. Commenting on the investment, Hostplus ...

Is risk advice at risk?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... policies were purchased through an adviser. About 25% were purchased directly from the insurer over the phone, followed by 18.5% via group insurance and 10.8% were purchased online. Similarly, NobleOak found 43.6% of respondents to its 2017 life insurance ...