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Rest awards mandate for member experience enhancement

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
Rest Super has contracted Reunion, a creative agency, to improve its member experience. Following a competitive tender, the nearly two-million-member strong superannuation fund said that it will work with Reunion to help members better understand and ...

Final QAR reforms open door to super funds

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
In its final response to the Quality of Advice Review (QAR), the government plans to modernise the best interests duty and amend the Statement of Advice (SoA), while also granting approval for superannuation funds to provide personal advice. In its ...

Robo-adviser reaches US$50bn milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023
While the local robo-advice industry flounders, Wealthfront has hit a record high of more than US$50 billion ($77bn) in assets under management, catering to 700,000 investors. The US robo-adviser boasted that as it continues to diversify offerings ...

CQS sold to Manulife Investment Management

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023
Australian billionaire Michael Hintze has divested a significant portion of his multi-billion-dollar asset management firm to Canadian giant Manulife Investment Management. Under the acquisition, expected to close in early 2024, Manulife will own London-based ...

Startup success hinges on founder personality: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
While the vast majority of fintechs fail, a new study from the University of New South Wales finds that their success rate is closely linked to the founder's personality. After using artificial intelligence to analyse the Twitter profiles of 21,000 ...

RBA's multi-channel approach curbs inflation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor Christopher Kent has punctuated that beyond the cash-flow channel, where a rise in the cash rate leads to higher interest payments for those with debt, there exists other avenues through which monetary ...

TAL makes leadership changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
Life insurer TAL has rejigged its executive lineup, seeing new leaders for the group life and retirement, individual life, and technology units. Chief claims officer Jenny Oliver is now the chief executive of group life and retirement. She is responsible ...

PwC chief executives hold too much power: Review

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
Too much power has rested in the hands of PwC chief executives, who are elected in a presidential-style campaign and, other than maintaining popularity, have unchecked authority, an independent review has found. The report by former Telstra boss Ziggy ...

OTPP, PGGM chief investment officers resign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) will farewell its chief investment officer at the end of the year, as will Dutch pension fund manager PGGM. Overnight, OTPP chief investment officer Ziad Hindo announced he will leave the fund at December ...

Some explanations have missed the mark: Lowe

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2023
Outgoing Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe has spoken of the difficulty of navigating his tenure in an era dominated by social media and clickbait, and said he remains confident the bank's decisions supported the population's economic ...