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New TAL scheme offers discounts for healthy living

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
TAL has teamed up with a former British Navy officer and physiologist in launching a new program that offers life insurance discounts for clients with a healthy lifestyle. The launch comes amid a wider industry move to align health and insurance. TAL ...

Industry fund flags DB issues in Fraser review

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
An industry superannuation fund has used the Fraser Review on governance to flag its concerns about the administration of defined benefit schemes. Vision Super, a $7.5 billion fund for local government and water authority employees, said any move to ...

Perpetual appoints new responsible entity chief

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
Perpetual Corporate Trust has appointed a new head of responsible entity services. Hugh Treweeke joins Perpetual from State Street, where he was vice president client relationship manager. Prior to that, he held senior roles at Wellington International ...

Standard Life Investments appoints ESG head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Standard Life Investments has promoted one of its senior fund managers to head of stewardship and ESG investment with Guy Jubb retiring at the end of March. Euan Stirling joined Standard Life Investments' as a UK equity analyst in 2001 from Schroder ...

Link to replace Veda in ASX200

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... remove Veda Group Limited from Australia's principle large cap index, subject to shareholder and final court approval of the scheme of arrangement whereby the company will be acquired by Equifax. S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove Veda Group Limited ASX ...

Morningstar appoints head of sales and distribution

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... served as sales leader and led business growth and management for the Mercer Super Trust and Mercer New Zealand KiwiSaver scheme. She also worked at Russell Investments in Sydney as managing director, retirement services, leading product development ...

NAB shareholders vote for UK exit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
NAB shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bank's demerger with Clydesdale in the UK. At the bank's scheme meeting today in Melbourne, NAB group chair Dr. Ken Henry explained the demerger would be structured with a new holding company ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Tens of thousands of public sector pensioners are learning the scale of changes to their defined benefit schemes that sees cuts to exemptions for the Centrelink pension income test. In June last year the federal parliament introduced a 10% cap on defined ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... than 1600. Independent law firm Hall & Wilcox says the rules may need to be changed again to breathe life into the ailing scheme. "We expected activity to stall as many SIV investors lodged applications before the changes were implemented. But nearly ...

Modest rise in retirement living costs: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... hospital services (+0.2%). The rise in pharmaceutical products was due to changes introduced under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Access and Sustainability Package. The rise was partially offset by a fall in therapeutic appliances and equipment ( ...