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Retirement officer roles critical in super funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023
With a wave of new members coming into retirement, it's more important than ever for super funds to create dedicated C-suite roles, a panel of executives at the Conference of Major Super Funds urged yesterday. As Aware Super's head of retirement ...

Don't wait for QAR: Press

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
ASIC commissioner Danielle Press pointed out at the Conference of Major Super Funds that retirement products need to be improved and waiting for the Quality of Advice Review (QAR) is not the best strategy. "I think the product piece is important here ...

Could a four-day workweek save the day?

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... with great success, and they then went on and established Work Week Global, which is running trials in the US, UK and Australia, New Zealand," he says. The six-month trials see participating companies agree to a four-day week with no reduction in wages. ...

Super funds are lousy at communications: Strategist

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... (CMSF) in Melbourne, Ralph provided an insight into his recent market research on growing opinions of superannuation in Australia. Out of many discussions with super members, Ralph said the majority feel their super fund is "lousy at communications". ...

Link Group appoints general manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
... superannuation, administration, banking and finance, most recently serving as director of asset and wealth management at KPMG Australia. She has also held senior leadership positions at Mercer, including head of retail growth and partnerships strategy ...

NEOS named Life Company of the Year

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
NEOS Life has taken home the top prize at the Association of Financial Advisers' Life Company of the Year awards, with TAL and MetLife named runners up. The win for NEOS Life marks the first time in five years that the top gong hasn't gone to TAL. Alongside ...

Aware Super restructures investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... the fund's property strategy locally and globally. His main focus is on direct operating platform investments in Australia, North America, Asia, Continental Europe and the UK. He is also a director on the board of Oak Tree Group in Brisbane, City ...

Rising interest rates tank life insurer performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2023
... from rising interest rates. Plan For Life's latest research shows that inflows rose by 3.4% in the year to September 2022. TAL continues to hold the lion's share of the market at 33% of nearly $6 billion, followed by AIA, which holds 18% at $3.3 billion. ...

TAL offloads dealer group to CountPlus

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
ASX-listed firm CountPlus will acquire 75 financial advice practices that once belonged to TAL. CountPlus will pay $3.373 million for Affinia Financial Advisers and have about 400 advisers and $16.8 billion in funds under advice once the deal completes. ...

Final voting for ESG Power50 open

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2023
... inaugural ESG Power50, a list that will name the 50 most influential ESG professionals working at ASX-listed companies in Australia. For the first time, readers of FS Sustainability along with FS Super - The Journal of Superannuation Management and FS ...