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MLC Life Insurance raises $650 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
The insurer received a $650 million capital injection just before Christmas, as its majority owner Nippon Life sees the risk of MLC Life's "stagnant" business performance continuing beyond 2021. The raise includes $530 million in ordinary equity, priced ...

Retail fund ups premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
A retail superannuation fund will increase premiums on income protection policies from 2021. Living Super, ING's super offering, will up income protection premiums by 23% from 8 January 2021. "Our focus is to provide a great value product with competitive ...

New MDA offering launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
Lifestyle Asset Management will introduce a new Managed Discretionary Advice (MDA) service to its authorised representative network and announced the appointment of an investment management coach. Lifestyle's MDA will launch a service pilot and invite ...

Responsible entity fined $2m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
A court has found Theta Asset Management and its managing director contravened the Corporations Act on multiple occasions in authorising the issues of five defective Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs). The court has ordered Theta to pay a penalty ...

Poor progress on human rights revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
The sad state of human rights concerns among the world's largest corporations has been laid bare in a new benchmarking report, finding little to no progress has been made in the last 12 months. The World Benchmarking Alliance released the fourth edition ...

World largest asset owners increase ESG, AUM

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
The largest asset owners in the world have increased both their monetary and social reach with active ownership becoming a key investment strategy, according to new research. The Thinking Ahead Institute's Asset Owner 100 (AO100) report shows the largest ...

SASB appoints Australian advisor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
The global body responsible for setting sustainability disclosure standards has appointed its first senior advisor for Australia following increased interest from local institutional investors. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
The Sydney multi-boutique is bidding farewell to its minority equity partner Highbury Partnership, as it enlists a new passive investor to bring ownership back to the management. Highbury invested about $15 million in Channel Capital in 2017 when the ...

Chief economist update: V for vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Encouraging test results for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech sent world equity markets from New York to Rio and ol' London town on the up and up and up. Pfizer and BioNTech are ...

PPS Mutual hires from Synchron

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Former Synchron state manager has joined mutual insurance firm PPS Mutual as a senior business development manager to strengthen its distribution in Victoria and Tasmania. Jason Milosevski has been the Victorian state manager at Synchron for the past ...