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GDG hires chief financial officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... integration of Lonsec (2024) and Evidentia (2025), and contributing to the growth of the group's subsidiaries GenLife (investment bonds) and Evidentia (managed accounts) into scalable, capital-light platform," he said. "Terence will remain with GDG through ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... such as Perennial offering a retirement "income model" and life insurers in the market with an alternative in investment bonds. But while many Australians are engaging with these products, many are not. In addressing this, the solution lies in education ...

Generation Life hires former Allianz Retire+ exec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... evolving wealth needs," Generation Life chief executive Felipe Araujo said. "Building on the heightened interest in investment bonds and our strategic alliance with BlackRock to drive innovation in Australian retirement incomes, Brendon's arrival advances ...

BlackRock takes stake in Generation Life parent company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... ASX 200, which was announce in a quarterly update that reported record inflows across its managed accounts and investment bonds businesses. BlackRock's head of Australasia Jason Collins said the firm's investment in GDG will provide the best ...

Generation Development Group enters ASX 200

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
Generation Development Group has posted record inflows across its managed accounts and investment bonds businesses and capped off the milestone by entering the ASX 200. The group's funds under management (FUM) increased to $26.8 billion in the March ...

Australian Unity chief retires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... Friendly Society, Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society, Home Care NSW, Greengate Partnership, Insignia Financial's investment bonds division, and most recently aged care provider myHomecare last year, for which it will pay $285 million. Chung said Mead's ...

GDG sees profits soar $74m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... merger with Lonsec Investment Solutions with a combined funds under management (FUM) of over $25 billion. GDG's investment bonds offering saw sales grow 29% year on year, contributing to a FUM increase of 27% to $3.8 billon. GDG announced it would acquire ...

GDG records highest quarterly FUM, inflows growth

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... stronger performance is attributed to several drivers including the desire for more financial advisers to consider investment bonds as alternative to other investment structures due to the tax arbitrage and vast estate planning benefits," Hackett added. ...

Generation Development Group profit jumps

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024
... another year of outperformance for the company, "surpassing all our key metrics," including record sales for both investment bonds and its investment-linked lifetime annuity, LifeIncome, totaling $674 million. "This resulted in our funds under management ...

Generation Development Group corrals complete ownership of Lonsec

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... received over $200 million in total inflows in the June quarter alone, setting an all-time sales record for both investment bonds and lifetime annuities during the period. The investment solutions provider said the record year of sales also resulted ...