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Pension fund manager siphons $2m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
The interim head of pensions and investments at an international pension fund was convicted of fraud after he abused his position and stole close to $2 million in retirement savings. Former Westminster City Council pension fund manager Ian Woodall was ...

Aviva chief executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
Aviva chief executive Mark Wilson is stepping down from the top job and will exit in April 2019. The UK insurance, pensions, investments and asset management firm said Wilson and its board have mutually agreed that Wilson will leave the group. Aviva ...

What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... capabilities with other key compass points being global talent; insights driven; and long-term focus. "When looking at pensions, it is not enough to simply take a pot of money and invest it with fiduciary compliant and benchmark aligned returns," Willcox ...

IOOF appoints dealer group chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... customers." In addition to finalising the acquisition, IOOF updated the market on its pending takeover of ANZ's One Path Pensions and Investments business. The wealth manager said the final completion of its purchase of the ANZ P&I business would take ...

IOOF completes ANZ dealer group acquisitions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... completed the acquisition of aligned dealer groups. It also provided an update on the progress of acquiring ANZ's One Path Pensions and Investments (ANZ P&I) business. As of Monday, the diversified wealth manager took full legal ownership of ANZ's aligned ...

NAB, MLC face class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... to claim under the terms of the policy, including students, people without gainful employment and people on disability pensions. Slater and Gordon allege the sales practices amounts to unconscionable conduct, meaning MLC and NAB contravened the ASIC ...

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... helps encourage Japanese-listed companies to adopt better carbon practice and increase data visibility." "As the large pensions and institutional investors have become increasingly aware of the need to understand, measure, and manage the environmental ...

Retirement living advice is an opportunity: Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... government's Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (ROPS) lists a limited number of superannuation schemes that transfer pensions to Australia. One of the popular schemes, the Australian Expatriate Superannuation Fund (AESF), which was designed to facilitate ...

Chief economist update: A new currency is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... sovereign bolivars, signalling a massive devaluation". The new currency brings adjustments of consumer prices, wages and pensions that in simple terms mean that five zeros would be cut from pre-existing levels. Maduro's "programme for recovery, growth ...

Advisers can't ignore CIPR debate: SSGA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... to 20%, while the remaining 80% goes into an account-based pension. Upon reaching 65, they can live off account-based pensions and will have a lot of flexibility in terms of drawdowns, but that is for a finite amount of time, he said. At 80-years-old ...