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Business giants attempt to crack financial planning

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
If you were given a financial planning practice and you had until June 2020 to raise its revenue by 25%, how would you do it? That's a question that was put to former Swisse Vitamins boss Radek Sali, former Costa Group managing director Simon Costa ...

Politician urges Treasurer to protect advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... extension to complete the financial adviser exam to 31 December 2021 and to complete the Graduate Diploma by 31 December 2025. A group of financial advisers who are based in Steggall 's electorate, she wrote, are concerned about the additional study ...

Global group adds to local leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... New Zealand alongside our long-standing presence in other reinsurance business lines is an exciting new step for us as a group," Munich Re Financial Solutions' managing director of investment management Moritz Seibert said. "We are privileged to ...

Fossil fuel exposures climb at UniSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
The $80 billion superannuation fund is more exposed to companies involved in fossil fuels than it was a year ago, according to its second annual climate risk disclosures released yesterday. At June end, UniSuper had 12% of its exposures in companies ...

MLC Life wins group insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... corporate clients can tailor to their needs, as well as delivering our underlying insurance capabilities," he said. As a group cover client of MLC Life, GEB joins the likes of Maritime Super, Vision Super and Qantas Super.

Actuaries develop retiree rule of thumb

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
A group of actuaries have answered the calls of retirees looking for a simpler way to determine how much money they should draw out of their savings in retirement, developing a new three-part rule of thumb. The Rule of Thumb Working Group has developed ...

Zurich secures mandate from $8b super fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
Zurich has been awarded a group insurance mandate from an industry super fund worth $8 billion. The mandate was awarded by Queensland-based Energy Super and is the first given to the insurer since it acquired OnePath Life in June this year. Head of ...

New SMAs launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... separately managed accounts (SMAs) have launched, attempting to address a demand the new FASEA code of ethics could create. A group of financial advisers have come together to launch the SMAs through Ethical Advisers Funds Management. The SMAs will screen ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... we had. What is your family office's investing style? JC: Bangarra Group has essentially been a family office and a group office for a number of, what I would term, private equity investments. And that has been our style for many years. They are ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
The world is only six years away from welcoming its first trillionaire, according to a new study that looked at the private wealth of the world's richest denizens. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is on the way to becoming the first ...