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Generation Life, PPS Mutual make senior distribution hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026
Generation Life and PPS Mutual are bolstering their distribution teams with senior hires. Generation Life named Robert Coulter as national key accounts manager, joining from Allianz Retire+ where he served as head of key accounts. Coulter will focus ...

Two Ensombl senior leaders exit

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
Two members of Ensombl's leadership team - the chief commercial officer and chief membership officer - have exited the financial adviser community platform. Chief commercial officer Danni Visser and chief membership officer Emily Jenkins finished up ...

VanEck reshuffles Aussie ranks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
VanEck has bolstered its bench strength with a series of internal promotions and a new hire spanning product, risk, investments and distribution. James Gil and Saul Bernstein have been elevated to head of product and head of risk and compliance, respectively ...

Colonial First State, AIA agree $140m class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
Colonial First State and AIA Australia will pay a combined $140 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by hundreds of thousands of super fund members who paid excessive insurance fees. The class action was launched by Shine Lawyers in January ...

Acenda confirms leadership team

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
Acenda Group has assembled its leadership team, to be effective upon completion of the merger between MLC Life and Resolution Life Australasia at the end of the month. Sean McCormack has been appointed group chief commercial officer. He will oversee ...

Super complaints decline year-on-year: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has completed its latest update of the AFCA Datacube, which makes data on complaints publicly accessible to consumers and financial firms. The latest update provides data on complaints made within ...

Natixis IM adds distribution leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Natixis Investment Managers has added two distribution leads who will respectively focus on institutional and private wealth clients. James Damicoucas joined as director of institutional sales this month. Based in Melbourne, Damicoucas was most recently ...

CBA sets aside $52m for remediation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said it has provisioned $52 million for remediation purposes as it finalises various class actions, including those related to superannuation and advice. CBA said the group is still defending two superannuation class ...

HESTA to lower insurance fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
HESTA it will reduce fees for insured members on their current levels of cover after re-appointing AIA Australia as its insurance partner. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the renewed partnership demonstrated the fund's commitment to providing ...

AIA Australia welcomes new chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
Susan Looi has been appointed to the role, bringing more than 25 years' experience to the fold. She was most recently at ANZ where she was general manager, enterprise risk for five years to December 2023. She initially joined ANZ in 2012, first at ANZ ...