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Aon, WTW merger will reduce competition: ACCC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
The ACCC has flagged concerns over Aon's proposed merger with Willis Towers Watson (WTW), throwing a spanner in the works for the two companies. The ACCC said Aon and WTW are two of the three largest providers of commercial risk, reinsurance and employee ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... Investments' FirstChoice Superannuation Trust (lifecycle) Diversa Trustees' SmartSave MySuper Balanced Equity Trustees' Aon MySuper (lifecycle) IOOF Mercer Superannuation's SmartPath (lifecycle) MLC Super Fund (lifecycle) Prime Super ...

Findex appoints chief growth officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... grow Findex's customer base in Australia and New Zealand. Chris Carey will join the executive team at Findex, joining from Aon Australia where he previously led distribution strategy and execution as national director of commercial sales. "My focus will ...

Shareholders approve Aon, WTW merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
Despite ongoing objection elsewhere, shareholders have approved the merger of Aon and Willis Towers Watson. Shareholders in Aon and Willis Towers Watson voted for all proposals necessary to see the merger through at their respective extraordinary general ...

Super fund members compensated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... third-party authorised representatives failed to comply with legislation that required their super accounts to be transferred to Aon MySuper by 1 April 2017 unless they explicitly opted out. As a result, the impacted members' account balances were lower ...

Industry fund named top employer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... staff. Kincentric, a global consulting firm specialising in human capital, offers the certification - previously known as the Aon Best Employer - to organisations which "strive to continuously inspire their people, spark change and accelerate business ...

Association of Financial Advisers bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... association after a 20-year career with Bridges Financial Services. Garrard was previously learning and development manager at Aon Hewitt, where she spent more than eight years. Prior to that, she was a training manager at Count Financial. AFA general ...

Willis Towers Watson, Aon to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Following weeks of speculation, the two entities have confirmed a merger will go ahead. Aon and Willis Towers Watson have announced a definitive agreement to merge operations in an all-stock transaction with an implied combined equity value of about ...

Adviser moves show industry upheaval

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... from 568 to 447. Financial Wisdom, which is in the process of shuttering, lost 93 advisers, down from 322 to 229. Meanwhile, Aon Hewitt lost a significant proportion of its headcount, dropping from 149 advisers to just 44. Despite news of Buyer of Last ...

Adviser tampered with MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
A former Aon Hewitt adviser copped an ASIC ban after he was found to have stopped 331 Aon Master Trust default superannuation members from switching to the cheaper MySuper option. Thanh Huu Tran has been banned for two years as a result of the misconduct. ...