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Netflix-style shopping for funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A former member of Macquarie's insto equities sales team is launching a new platform which ultimately aims to offer a Netflix-style shopping experience to financial advisers and clients. Forum 360 has been working for two years to build the prototype ...

Legalsuper renews admin contract

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
Legalsuper reappointed Link Group as its fund administrator, extending the 15-year partnership. Link will service legalsuper's 44,000 members for five years with the potential for a subsequent two-year term. Legalsuper's chief executive Andrew ...

Financial Standard launches FS Aspire CPD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
Financial Standard is drawing on its deep catalogue of financial advice, superannuation and wealth management content to roll out a new proprietary Continuing Professional Development program for financial services professionals. FS Aspire CPD offers ...

MGP chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... Investors. Brook is the former chief executive and managing director of the former NSW government-owned superannuation administrator Pillar Administration (now owned by Mercer). His previous experience includes executive and director roles at StatePlus ...

Sunsuper merges with corporate super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... concluded. The successor fund transfer is expected to occur in the latter part of 2019. Mercer is the incumbent administrator, while JANA Investments is the asset consultant. Sunsuper has about 1.3 million members and $57 billion in assets under management. ...

Mercer names platform provider for direct super investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
An ASX-listed investment platform and fund administrator will provide member direct investing capabilities to Mercer's clients and superannuation members. The wealth giant is partnering with OneVue for Mercer Direct, its direct investment offering for ...

Australia Day honours recognise industry stalwarts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... faces, including the chair of a $9 billion superannuation fund; the managing director of Australia's largest fund administrator; and a former ASIC commissioner. Former Principal Global Investors chair David Hoare was awarded a Companion (AC) in the ...

ASIC suspends online broker AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
ASIC has suspended the AFSL of an online stockbroking firm until 10 January 2020. Halifax Investment Services had its licence suspended shortly after it went into voluntary administration. ASIC said the terms of the suspension will allow Halifax clients ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... really accentuate the speed of claims processing." The insurer had to work with the superannuation fund and its fund administrator to get client information and build back office APIs. However, the award-winning platform did not use any machine learning ...

AustralianSuper members exposed to security breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
The accounts of about 11,000 AustralianSuper members have been the target of a security breach. Australia's largest superannuation fund, with about 2.2 million members, said it has detected the "unauthorised access," which occurred earlier this ...