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HUB24 launches new ESG ratings

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2023
HUB24 has launched additional ESG ratings on its platform, following a collaboration with Morningstar and Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). The new functionality provides advisers with access to "data-driven insights" and reporting ...

Sri Lanka announces bankruptcy

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
Sri Lanka's debt-laden economy has collapsed, and its newly elected prime minister has announced bankruptcy as the island nation suffers its worst financial crisis in decades. Due to the crisis, the country has seen severe shortages of necessities like ...

Mercy Super awards group insurance mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
Mercy Super has appointed a new group insurer, with the mandate effective August 1. Following a competitive tender process, Zurich has been mandated to provide cover to the $1.5 billion fund's 13,000 members. In naming Zurich as its insurance partner ...

Zurich expands group insurance leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Zurich Life & Investments will soon welcome its first head of digital and member engagement within the group insurance team, hiring from Aware Super. Ahmad Racheha has been appointed to the newly created role at Zurich, effective next month. Racheha ...

WAM to acquire two LICs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 DEC 2021
... other listed investment companies in a bid to take its market capitalisation to $2.3 billion. Westoz Investment Company (ASX: WIC) and Ozgrowth (ASX: OZG) have entered into an agreement with WAM to merge under separate transactions. WAM is proposing ...

Morningstar appoints head of business development

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
Morningstar Australia has announced the appointment of Peter Bryant as the head of business development for Australia and New Zealand. Bryant will join Morningstar in mid-January and will lead the Morningstar sales team responsible for data, research ...

New leadership at Zurich Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
Zurich Life & Investments has made three senior leadership appointments to its group insurance team. Francis Burgess will join Zurich Life & Investments in the newly created role of head of pricing, group insurance. He joins from TAL, where he was head ...

Zurich appoints head of product

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
Insurance giant Zurich has appointed a head of product into a newly created role within its group insurance business. "Jennifer Faglioni was recently appointed as head of product, one of three newly created senior roles in Darren Wickham's group insurance ...

Zurich, OnePath cover vaccine side-effects

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
Zurich Life & Investments and OnePath Life have added protection coverage from the COVID-19 vaccination into eligible life insurance policies to encourage more people to get vaccinated. The new protection ensures that if any Zurich or OnePath Life insured ...

AdviserLogic executive departs Morningstar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
The former chief executive of AdviserLogic has stepped down following the integration into Morningstar. Daniel Gara is leaving his role as director of product management, financial planning at Morningstar having joined in 2019 at the time of the Morningstar ...