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Resolution Life completes NZ$410m life business transaction

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
Resolution Life's trans-Tasman life insurer, Resolution Life Australasia, has completed the acquisition of Asteron Life New Zealand. The takeover, reported last year by Financial Standard, further cements Resolution Life as the second largest life insurer ...

Super fund promotional expenses balloon: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
Superannuation funds' promotional expenses continue to balloon as new APRA data shows that AustralianSuper has the biggest marketing budget while Hostplus continues to splurge on sponsorship deals. Hostplus splashed a staggering $13.7 million on ...

Milford Asset Management names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... who has served in the role for more than a decade. Turnbull is currently the chief executive of New Zealand and Pacific insurer Tower. He's also previously held senior leadership roles with Aviva Group, ASB Bank, and Great Eastern Life. "Blair's strong ...

Natixis, Generali merger creates $3.2tn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Natixis' owner BPCE and GIH's parent company Generali, a major Italian insurer, in which the latter will commit €15 billion ($25bn) in seed funding to the joint venture. The entity will be established ...

Former AIA executive finds new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Former AIA Australia head of retail and partnerships Sam Tremethick has landed at NMG Consulting as a partner responsible for data analytics and insights in Australia and New Zealand. In the new role, Tremethick will focus on life and health insurance ...

Top asset management trends for 2025

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent 2024, the prospect of more accommodating monetary and regulatory policies has turbocharged an up and to the right trend that's flattered many asset managers' businesses. However, themes that will shape the industry now, and in the ...

Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
The number of advisers that have exited the industry over the past four or five years appears to have plateaued, albeit another decline in 2023, last year's figures suggest that the losses have stabilised, according to Rainmaker Information's 2024 ...

Rest nabs culture leader from Aware

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... including engineering, agribusiness, and financial services. Most recently, she served as chief people officer at life insurer NobleOak. Before that, she was the chapter lead of people experience and governance at Resolution Life Australasia. Murrell ...

Rest appoints two general managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... evolve its employee value proposition. The second appointee, Gama Ghosn, who was previously the chief people offer at insurer NobleOak, has been named general manager of people solutions and services. Ghosn will join on 21 January 2025 and be responsible ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... leader in the insurance industry. "Lexie and her team are truly focused on what Australians want and need from us as an insurer and are working to develop even clearer more targeted products and services for our direct and retail customers," he said. ...