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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 ...

Adviser number growth shoots?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... that's worth watching, and certainly something that we'll continue to watch over the next couple of years." Meanwhile, on insurance, based on estimates, around 1000 to 1500 advisers are regularly offering insurance advice, which highlights the ongoing ...

Insight Investment names chief executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... investment, capital market and strategic initiatives. He also held various board positions across the asset management and insurance sector. Insight Investment considers Srivastava as an "exceptionally well-suited" successor of the retiring chief. Commenting ...

Perpetual awards mandate to Equity Trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2025
... offering. The Super Plan allows investors to save for retirement and offers death, disability, and salary continuance insurance cover to eligible members. The Pension Plan pays clients a regular pension from an accumulated superannuation upon retirement. ...

CC Capital Partners bids for Insignia

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... it floated its subsidiary CF Corporation on the NASDAQ. In 2017, CF Corporation and fixed indexed annuities and life insurance provider Fidelity & Guaranty Life merged. Insignia added that CC Capital's proposal is "subject to a number of conditions ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
MetLife Investment Management, the US$603 billion asset management arm of insurance giant MetLife, is set to acquire PineBridge Investments from Pacific Century Group in a deal valued up to US$1.2 billion. The deal comprises US$800 million in cash at ...