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AMP improves life insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Newly-launched improvements to AMP's life insurance offering are aiming to give advisers and customers greater flexibility and choice. To ensure customers' cover stays contemporary, AMP director of insurance proposition Greg Johnson said options can ...

AMP Capital makes key infrastructure hire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
AMP Capital appointed a new investment director for its infrastructure equity team. Brent Tasugi joins AMP Capital's New York office from Oaktree Capital Management, where he was a senior vice president overseeing North American transportation, logistics ...

Former AFA executive returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... the great work done by those before them." Anderson has previously held roles with Colonial First State, Perpetual, NAB and AMP, and was most recently working as a consultant on financial advice projects with Global Consultancy. Commenting on his new ...

Banks charging more for less in super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... super fees. "The high share of total superannuation industry fees being paid into the retail segment, and banking groups and AMP in particular, is significant because of the relative gap in investment outcomes delivered to fund members over the longer ...

Super assets hit $2.3 trillion

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... Super Australia chief executive David Whiteley said a 10-year analysis of the data found bank-owned super funds, including AMP, reported "chronic underperformance." While Whiteley didn't provide hard figures, he said 97% of bank-owned funds generate ...

AMP continues goals-based advice focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
AMP chief executive Craig Meller has reaffirmed the company's application to goals-based advice as part of the wider strategy to operate a higher-growth, less capital-intensive wealth business. Speaking at an investor strategy day in Sydney, Meller ...

Big banks pay $60m in advice refunds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
AMP, ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac have to-date repaid $60 million out of an estimated $204 million for charging clients for financial advice that was not provided. This news follows the October 2016 release of ASIC's report into the advice businesses of ...

Australian impact investing primed to reach $32bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
A new initiative to support the development of Australia and New Zealand's impact investment market has been launched by Responsible Investment Association Australasia and Impact Investing Australia. The Impact Investment Forum, chaired by former Christian ...

Two Victorian advisers cop bans

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
Two former AMP Group-aligned financial advisers copped temporary bans from ASIC for operating without an AFSL and providing inappropriate advice. ASIC's investigation found MySuperMan director David Heycock and employee Stuart Arnold-Levy provided unlicensed ...

Industry fund wins stake in Endeavour Energy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... product has a strategic asset allocation of 6% to infrastructure, with $2 billion in infrastructure investments managed by AMP Capital and Super Investment Management (a subsidiary of REST). According to REST Industry Super general manager, investments ...