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Challenger taps Hamilton for top job

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
Nick Hamilton will take over as managing director and chief executive of Challenger on January 1. Following the announcement of Richard Howes' intention to retire earlier this year, Challenger has appointed Hamilton as his successor. Hamilton currently ...

QSuper, Sunsuper unveil rebrand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... and Sunsuper unveiled a new name ahead of their planned merger, set to finalise early next year. The combined $230 billion super fund will be known as Australian Retirement Trust. Sunsuper's 1.4 million members will become members of Australian Retirement ...

Iress to take admin reigns at ESSSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... and Iress have been working together since late 2019 on Project Voyager, a strategic initiative undertaken to prepare the super fund for outsourcing of its administration. The decision to outsource the transactional elements of administration was made ...

Industry fund cuts premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
A $2 billion industry fund has reduced its insurance premiums by more than 17%. REI Super informed members premium rates will decrease by 17.5% for income protection and 3.3% for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance. "We continuously ...

Retirement Income Covenant hits parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2021
... receive superannuation. "This will benefit 300,000 low-income Australians of whom approximately 63% are women," he said. Super Consumers Australia director Xavier O'Halloran commented that the covenant will finally put the onus on funds to contemplate ...

Equip appoints head of retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
Promoting from within, the superannuation fund has created the role to strengthen its offering to retired members to optimise their outcomes. Sam Higgie has been appointed to the role, following three years working on the fund's product strategy. Prior ...

High-net-worth investors richer, optimistic

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
Australia's high-net-worth (HNW) investors have multiplied in size and wealth, controlling $2.77 trillion in investable assets, new research shows. New research commissioned by Praemium and carried out by Investment Trends found the total number of ...

BT confirms changes to super business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021
... proposed some changes to make us more efficient and lower our cost base". "As a result of these changes, a number of BT Super employees are entering consultation on potential impacts to their role. We would always look for redeployment for our people ...

CBA takes stake in AI firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
Commonwealth Bank has taken a minority stake in a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform. H2O.ai operates a cloud-based machine learning platform, H2O AI Cloud, and employs some of the world's top data scientists. The partnership ...

David Atkin to lead PRI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
... several months. He has also previously served as chief executive of three superannuation funds: Cbus, ESSSuper and JUST SUPER. Since November last year Atkin has sat on the board of the Climate Council. Commenting on his new role, Atkin said: "I am very ...