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Minimum service standards for super funds welcomed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... improvement". These include the timely and compassionate handling of death benefits, fair and efficient processing of insurance claims, and clear, respectful and accessible communications with members. "While most funds offer services that meet or often ...

AdviceIQ general manager Paul Harding-Davis to retire

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... decade at Macquarie, and before that served as a strategy consultant across the wealth management, asset management, and insurance industries. His consulting work followed a two-year tenure as head of wealth management at Oliver Wyman. Earlier in his ...

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... boards, executives, and regulators to address complex governance, risk, and regulatory issues in superannuation and insurance. He has over 15 years of experience consulting to superannuation funds and global asset managers and previously worked at the ...

Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... further mentioned that the funds are transitioning to a new platform provider, a new default investment design, a new insurance structure, and a new custodian. As for future merger partners, Sherry indicated some were waiting in the wings. "So, yes ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... marketing, and product design. Also joining the Vanguard Super board is Jan Swinhoe who has worked in superannuation, insurance and banking for about the same length of time as Whatley. Swinhoe's last executive role was at the helm of Westpac Group's ...

Former AIA executive finds new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... data analytics and insights in Australia and New Zealand. In the new role, Tremethick will focus on life and health insurance industries and cover direct and adviser distribution, manufacturers and reinsurers. He has over 25 years of experience in the ...

TPB welcomes stay of sanctions against disqualified agents

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... the Beach, to have failed to comply with tax obligations. They also did not have appropriate professional indemnity insurance coverage and misled investigators. Similarly, Kambourakis were found to have breached compliance obligations and made false ...

MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... implement TCS software, with the potential to utilise solutions such as the BFSI Platform, which caters to the life insurance, pension, and annuities industries. Mumbai-based TCS won a mandate from the ASX in 2023 to provide clearing and settlement services. ...

Vision Super to drop fees upon merger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... March 2025, administration fees will drop from $78 per annum to $66.04 pa. This will be on top of the 2% reduction in insurance fee rates which were announced in September 2024. "That's just the start of the potential benefits we see ahead - our modelling ...

WA financial planning firm acquired by US insurance broker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has acquired Western Australia-based Wealth Management Partners (WMP), with the entire WMP team to remain under Arthur J. Gallagher's direction moving forward. Details of the transaction were not ...