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Retail super fund scores best customer service nod

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... Australia CX Index. Superannuation offerings from MLC and AMP took the sixth and seventh spots respectively. Forrester Research, a US market research firm, surveyed more than 2800 members of the seven super funds at the thick of the pandemic from May ...

RIAA, AXA IM launch adviser ESG guide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Adviser Guide to Responsible Investment to demystify responsible and ethical investment for advisers. AXA IM head of ESG research and active ownership Yo Takatsuki said as client demand grows, advisers need to be familiar with the different options to ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... COVID-19 volatility, financial advisers have managed to deliver value of 5.2% or more each year to clients, according to new research. It's the key finding of Russell Investments' Value of an Adviser Report for 2020, saying this is the case for adviser/client ...

Pandemic batters life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... pandemic has wiped out $1.4 billion from the books of life insurers and triggered a spike in claims, according to new research. KPMG's 2020 Life insurance insights reveals close to half of the firms it analysed are making a loss. Retail disability ...

A new model is coming: Licensees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... service, there's a model emerging to address that," Whereat said. Whereat said IOOF recently undertook a large piece of research looking at the experience of 13,000 advised clients and that one thing that was clear from that was that those who had an ...

Neuberger Berman bolsters distribution team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... for five years. He was previously a national key account manager at Bennelong Funds Management, a strategic account and research manager at Zurich Investments and a research analyst at Morningstar. Commenting on the appointment, Wallis said: "I am delighted ...

Westpac consolidates international operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... committed to supporting our employees, customers and partners through these changes," Zuber added. It comes as Finbold research reveals Westpac ranks third among the biggest fines paid by global banks so far this year. The $1.3 billion it paid over its ...

Active managers grapple with EM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
New Rainmaker research shows just 30% of actively-managed emerging-market funds delivered on their promise in the last three years. The latest Rainmaker Wholesale managed funds performance report looked at 22 products with $6.5 billion of assets over ...

Westpac puts Australia on bad banking leaderboard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... around US$10.5 billion in fines so far this year, with Westpac taking out third place thanks to the AUSTRAC scandal. The research, provided by Finbold, listed the top 10 biggest fines paid by global banks with US institutions taking out four of the 10 ...

Willis Towers Watson director departs for LIC

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
Wilson Asset Management has nabbed Willis Towers Watsons' director of manager research and head of real assets Australia after a decade with the financial services giant, set to lead the investment manager's new alternative assets strategy. Dania Zinurova ...