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Hedge fund scraps local sales role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... the North American and Australasian asset management industry. He previously led the national distribution team for Zurich Life and Investments, focusing on the retail, advised and superannuation channels. Before that, he was head of distribution for ...

ART promotes high-profile retirement specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Australian Retirement Trust has promoted its high-profile asset liability management lead to a more senior retirement job. Longstanding executive and renowned retirement specialist Brnic Van Wyk has been elevated to principal of retirement solutions ...

Frontier Advisors lands major mandate from asset management giant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Frontier Advisors has won a mandate from Japan's $350 billion Nissay Asset Management, which is part of the Nippon Life Insurance Group. The mandate will allow Nissay to tap into Frontier's institutional intelligence to support its pension clients. ...

Acenda forms innovation function to create new insurance propositions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
Acenda, created pending the merger of MLC Life Insurance and Resolution Life Australasia, has formed an innovation function led by a Suncorp veteran. Acenda said the new division will initially focus on supporting the development of new insurance propositions ...

Perpetual Wealth Management adds five senior advisers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... Australia as senior financial advisers later this month. Patrick Malone has already joined as a partner leading Priority Life, Perpetual's specialist risk advisory business. Perpetual Wealth Management chief executive Mark Smith said the new hires would ...

Federal Court hammers defunct advice firm with $11m penalty

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... deliberate" and "extended over several years." It noted that the recipients of the advice were making important and potentially life-changing decisions about their superannuation. Separately, it found the advice was given in an incentivised environment ...

Future Group confirms more mergers ahead, undertakes review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... funds under management, held on behalf of 7500 members. Meantime, MLC Insurance Only is used by about 97,000 members to fund life insurance premiums in a tax-effective structure. It also has superannuation accounts with funds under management totalling ...

Generation Development Group enters ASX 200

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... healthy FY26 pipeline of committed inflows," Generation Development Group chief executive Grant Hackett said. Generation Life, meanwhile, strengthened its position in the investment bonds market, increasing FUM to $3.95 billion, up 23% on the prior corresponding ...

Corporate fund selects Mercer Super for SFT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
One of the few remaining corporate super funds, the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund, will be merged into Mercer Super from next month. In September 2024, the trustee for the Goldman Sachs & JBWere Superannuation Fund - BEST Superannuation ...

Div 296 must proceed to strengthen 'fairness' in superannuation: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... case of insolvencies, enabling contributions to pension accounts, and banning the use of adverse genetic testing results in life insurance through the paper. "This federal election ASFA is calling for targeted and coordinated reforms that protect and ...