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Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
The Actuaries Institute's annual summit has seen a fiery debate between the chief executive of the Grattan Institute and Mercer's David Knox over ideal retirement incomes. Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley and Mercer senior partner ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
State Street Global Advisors will launch a suite of multi-asset ETF model portfolios that aim to meet financial advisers' demand for low cost and easy to implement solutions. The portfolios fall into two investment strategies: State Street Risk-Based ...

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
Indigenous Australians are being let down by financial institutions' failure to provide access to basic banking services and recognise different cultural attitudes towards money, a new report from the First Nations Foundation reveals. Of the 620 ...

Fintechs to play vital ESG role: AXA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
AXA Investment Managers global head of responsible investing Matt Christensen told a recent roundtable in Sydney that fintechs will play a vital role in investors' attempts to address climate change. The role of fintechs, according to Christensen, will ...

Major instos hit with cartel class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
Maurice Blackburn today filed a class action in the Federal Court suing UBS, Barclays, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland and JP Morgan. The class action alleges the banks colluded to rig foreign exchange rates during a period between January 2008 and ...

Zurich launches new client portal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
Zurich has launched a new on demand, self-serve portal for life insurance, superannuation and investment clients. The My Zurich portal will offer a new level of engagement for clients, which Zurich said will drive greater adviser efficiency and streamline ...

Material weakness in super funds, insurers exposed

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... Superannuation, Perpetual Superannuation, QSuper, Rest, Cbus and Hostplus. The life insurers included: AMP Life, Challenger, MLC and TAL Life. As for the banks, ANZ, NAB, Westpac and Macquarie Bank were put under the spotlight. Consistent among the findings ...

MLC Life wins group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... Super, Energy Super, Vision Super and Qantas Super among others. AIA Australia also recently lost a group insurance mandate to TAL, ending a 15-year relationship with $51 billion super fund Rest.

Spaceship searches for new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
Startup superannuation fund Spaceship is shaking up its management structure and is on the hunt for a new chief. Chief executive and co-founder Paul Bennetts will become chief product officer, a new role that was created as part of the super fund's ...

Blue Sky enters receivership

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
The ASX-listed alternatives fund manager was placed in receivership this morning, as its financier exercised its rights after Blue Sky breached a term of its $50 million loan facility. Oaktree Capital Management has appointed restructuring specialist ...