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MLC Life updates retail insurance product range

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2022
... health, wellness, and recovery service which launched in August. MLC Life recently made these services available to financial advisers as well.

Insurance, retirement product excellence recognised

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
... received the Longevity Product (Lifetime Investment Linked) Award. ISS owns Plan For Life and Rainmaker Group, publisher of Financial Standard.

New APRA chair named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
... said that "APRA will remain focused on fulfilling its mandate and ensuring that Australia has a strong and resilient financial system," under his leadership. Meanwhile, executive directors Suzanne Smith and Therese McCarthy Hockey will be appointed as ...

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... Health Card. For singles, it will jump from $61,284 to $90,000, and for couples from $98,054 to $144,000. Speaking to Financial Standard, Mercer senior partner and global pension expert David Knox said the government is merely responding to cost-of-living ...

Carlyle names local private equity lead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... advisory team. He'll also oversee investments across the firm's priority sectors of consumer, healthcare, technology, and financial services across Australia and New Zealand. Hutchinson has over 15 years of private equity industry experience as well ...

Retirees are silent casualties of inflation: Challenger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... their money last, on average, for around 24 years compared to 13 years in the 1970s, finding a solution is critical to the health of the economy," Minney said. The impact of inflation on a retiree's lifestyle can be dramatic, even with modest inflation. ...

Members stick with dud super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... previous government's stapling reform that can tie members to failing funds unless they act. As previously reported by Financial Standard, YFYS stapling requirements tied around one million members to a super fund that's failed APRA's performance test. ...

Millionaires worry about retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... income from their savings. "Investors would likely do better to diversify their holdings, in consultation with a trusted financial adviser," Natixis IM said.

Austbrokers Life, Australian Unity partner

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
Austbrokers Life and Australian Unity Personal Financial Services (AUPFS) are partnering to offer clients access to a broader set of capabilities focused on enhancing financial wellbeing. AUPFS will deliver strategic and other support to Austbrokers ...

Vanguard unveils positive impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
... fund," Vanguard Australia head of product Evan Reedman said. "The underlying product has been designed to both have a financial objective which a long-term investor will find attractive but also to have that impact objective with impacts around social ...