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TAL nabs AIA strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
TAL Austalia has recruited a senior investment strategy and portfolio manager from rival AIA Australia. John Archer was at AIA for two years, joining from CommInsure where he spent 17 years, most recently as the executive manager of investment strategy. ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
School-leaver job uncertainty and the widening skills gap is costing the Australian economy billions of dollars every year, according to a new report by Year13 and HEDx. The report, which highlights the challenges faced by students in post-school transition ...

MLC Life explores new market

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
MLC Life has recruited a new general manager to help drive growth in the individual life insurance segment. Imran Lalani has been appointed general manager of emerging individual markets. He joins MLC Life Insurance with extensive experience in leadership ...

ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
Australian Retirement Trust has appointed the interim head of insurance to the job permanently. Matthew Finney is now chief executive of ART Life, an APRA-regulated insurance entity and a wholly owned subsidiary of the superannuation giant. Finney was ...

Unlawful hawking practices re-emerge in SMSFs

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
SMSF Association (SMSFA) chief executive Peter Burgess has called out recent hawking practices that prompt people to transfer their retirement savings into a self-managed super fund (SMSF). Burgess said the sector needs to be on alert about the resurgence ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
The financial services industry has made modest inroads with gender parity, and closing the wealth and financial literacy gap, but the reality is accelerated action is needed from the government and private sector to tackle entrenched inequalities as ...

Three in five women lack retirement confidence

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
New research commissioned by Colonial First State (CFS) has highlighted significant disparities between men and women when it comes to retirement preparedness and financial confidence. The findings, based on a survey of 2250 Australians, revealed that ...

Westpac's Yetton chooses to move on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
Westpac chief executive of consumer banking Jason Yetton has left the bank, prompting a search for his successor. Yetton led the consumer division since August 2023 after three years leading the bank's specialist business and group strategy. This ...

Vale Donald Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Donald Williams, co-founder and former chief investment officer of Platypus Asset Management, is being remembered following his passing. Williams began his career as an analyst at AMP in 1990. In 1994 he became a commodity analyst at Credit Suisse First ...

Vanguard launches two new diversified ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Vanguard has launched two new diversified exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the ASX, catering to high-growth investors and those seeking steady income. The Vanguard Diversified All Growth Index ETF (ASX: VDAL) is designed for investors with a very high-risk ...