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Actuaries Institute recruiting after CEO resignation

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
... of Australia (ASFA). She was also an actuary at ALEA Actuarial Consulting and director, superannuation and retirement products at BT Financial Group. As the sole professional body for actuaries in Australia, the Actuaries Institute (the Institute) represents ...

AMP FS appoints director from CBA ranks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... director contemporary wealth management products. Montague will be responsible for a number of superannuation and retirement products including AMP Flexible Super, as well as sales, distribution, marketing, product, pricing and investments. Montague ...

Sunsuper creates product management roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... in superannuation, insurance, retirement and advice. Ben Hillier will manage the fund's superannuation and retirement products team. With more than 15 years of product management experience, predominantly in financial services, his most recent role was ...

Planners race to plug gap in aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... not just with their clients but also with the clients' parents and their children," said Rimmer. Meanwhile, retirement products specialist Challenger is among those leading the charge with a new product that was designed to cover the main aspects of ...

Challenger gets Lonsec approval on annuities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... well as the Liquid Lifetime annuity. "We're pleased with the recognition that our annuities are true-to-label retirement products which do what they say they will do - making them ideal for providing bedrock retirement income," Challenger Life chief ...

Energy Super tops extra benefits table

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... access to 'limited' financial advice, binding death nomination, online investment switching and transition to retirement products. Offering 38 extra benefits, Energy Super topped the table followed by CareSuper. MLC MasterKey Business Super offered 35 ...

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... argued Bateman are revelations within her research that suggest too many investors simply don't understand what retirement products are design to do. The research suggests that two thirds of people thought a balanced option was effectively another name ...

Investors need mid-term protection: BT

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... would give them the confidence to invest, Greenhalgh noted. "Advisers and clients have been crying out for retirement products that preserve capital when markets fall but still provide opportunity for growth on the upside. "Since the GFC we have seen ...

CareSuper scoops SelectingSuper awards

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... Year is awarded to the fund or platform with the best overall standing after the best Workplace, Personal and Retirement products sub-category winners and finalists have been assessed. The SelectingSuper Long Term Performance Award recognises market ...

Lonsec and Milliman challenge current advice model for retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... future." Lukasz de Pourbaix, head of investment consulting at Lonsec added while there is a growing number of retirement products on the market there continue to be a lack of guidance around constructing portfolios to meet retiree objectives. Lonsec ...