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Morrison names new partner

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... Rachel Drew, has joined the partnership after almost two decades with the New Zealand-based fund manager. Drew spent around six years as an operating executive in one of Morrison's portfolio companies. She also helped transition the management of ...

DII drives life insurance disputes: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... most sluggish to resolve a dispute at 2.1 months on average for advised customers, albeit from a small base of a total of six disputes. In recent years, APRA put the microscope on DII, questioning its sustainability, profitability, pricing and actual ...

Insignia gives PE firms more time to devise deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... $3.35 billion. Insignia then signed exclusivity deals with both parties so they could continue discussions for a period of six weeks. At the time, Brookfield Capital Partners had also made an offer. It and other bidders have been locked out of the race ...

Future Group positions super offerings for growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... options for both Future Super and Verve Super will be closed. Members' investments will then be appropriately mapped to six new investment options. For Future Super accumulation members, the new options are Sustainable Moderate, Sustainable Balanced ...

IFM Investors fills executive post after global hunt

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
IFM Investors has appointed Amy Diab as its chief operating officer, following a six-month global search. Diab has been acting chief operating officer since October last year, after the firm lost her predecessor Lounarda David, a former chief investment ...

Short-term noise reinforces long-term investment thinking: ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... try and position for how markets are going to fare next month or the month after, or how they might perform over the next six or 12 months. We focus a lot more of our research effort and portfolio management thinking on how the world and how asset classes ...

Top ART executives depart in reshuffle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... will take on Barnes's role, which means she is in charge of all growth assets. The high-profile Barnes worked at ART for six years and previously spent 11 years at Sunsuper before it merged with QSuper in 2022 to create the $300 billion megafund. ...

WTW promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... portfolio analyst within Hastings Funds Management's quantitative insight team. For her part, Hargrave has been with WTW for six years, joining from Haben Property Fund, while Tate landed from GSA Insurance Brokers. "Commenting on the promotions ...

Blue Owl completes local private wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... president and will work for Valtwies in Sydney as part of the firm's private wealth build-out in Australia. The recruit spent six years at Bentham in wholesale distribution, most recently as state manager for New South Wales and Queensland. Previously ...

Paying more fees doesn't speed up superannuation death benefit payouts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
Paying higher superannuation fees doesn't equate to getting death benefits paid out faster, according to research by Super Consumers Australia (SCA). In the wake of a review by ASIC into death benefit claims handling practices of superannuation trustees ...