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Perpetual mulls tie up with Partners Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
Perpetual is mulling a partnership with Partners Group's Australian arm to develop products and investment strategies for public and private assets. Signing a letter of intent, the two parties hope to collaborate on launching investment vehicles or ...

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... the actuarial profession, Trowbridge founded consulting firm Trowbridge Consulting and spearheaded the review into retail life insurance advice released in 2015. He was an executive member of APRA and the Financial Reporting Council. Thorpe was AXA's ...

Regulators note advances in life insurers' practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
ASIC and APRA commenced a joint review in 2022 over concerns that life insurance premium increases might not have aligned with policy terms or met policyholder expectations set by disclosure and marketing materials, though has since noted progress. ...

AIOFP, FAAA encouraged by first meeting with Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... Mulino's Melbourne office, some of the AIOFP's top priorities were the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR), Life Insurance Framework (LIF) and rationalisation of the compliance regime. AIOFP executive director Peter Johnston said: "We were ...

MAX Awards honour best of the best

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... organisations, teams and individuals across 20 different categories. The biggest winners on the night were BlackRock and Generation Life. BlackRock won three awards: Website of the Year, Team of the Year - Distribution, and Lawson Enright was recognised ...

Super needs customised, personalised approach: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... offerings. The framework lays out what strategies trustees should adopt to provide tailored engagement with members based on their life stage. For members aged 16 to 34 years old, for example, the framework suggests engagement via superannuation and ...

ASIC alleges Choosi flogged Hannover life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
ASIC has taken Choosi to the Federal Court for allegedly failing to provide a range of comparable options on life and funeral insurance policies to customers and instead flogging products solely from Hannover Life Re. From at least 1 July 2019 and to ...

Dai-ichi Life acquires 15% of M&G

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Dai-ichi Life HD, which owns TAL, will acquire 15% of British asset manager M&G, with the two establishing a long-term strategic partnership across asset management and life insurance. Under the partnership, which is expected to produce at least US$6 ...

AMP launches superannuation feature to boost retirement income

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... retirement, members can transfer a portion of their super to an AMP Lifetime Pension, which is designed to provide income for life, alongside an AMP Allocated Pension. AMP said that Centrelink assesses Age Pension eligibility using the lower concessional ...

ART pinged by ASIC over misleading returns data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) was fined by the regulator after it was found to have showcased better returns than what was really being achieved for its MySuper option. ASIC alleged ART misled consumers by publishing outdated performance data for ...