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WA Super provides merger update

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
WA Super has updated members on its planned merger with Aware Super, confirming its solutions will transfer on December 3. Members of WA Super have been notified their membership with Aware Super will commence from December 4, with their accounts to ...

Retail super offerings in successor fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... transfer LESF Super to Smartsave earlier this year, OneVue's Diversa is pushing ahead with the transfer of MAP Superannuation Plan from November 30. The merger will impact nine sub-plans; Complete Super, Retire Select, Whole Super, Australian Practical ...

AFA rejigs board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... honoured to be president again. "The AFA has set a firm forward strategy, with a strong policy and advocacy focus and a business plan that is well positioned to meet the current challenging COVID-19 economic conditions," he said. Board member and treasurer ...

Fastest-growing AFSLs in the country

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information shows which licensees added the most advisers in the 12 months to September end. And which AFSLs have the biggest market share. Overall, there were 19,357 advisers attached to an AFSL at September end, down 2597 ...

Challenger shareholders revolt against remuneration

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Challenger's company-wide salary freeze wasn't enough to appease shareholders, who delivered a first strike against its executive pay yesterday. Of the total votes cast, 28.25% were against adopting the remuneration report, meaning it was approved ...

Wages will not rise from SG cut: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Industry Super Australia has hit out at arguments that wages will increase if the planned superannuation guarantee rise is delayed. ISA said the evidence that ditching the SG rise will not help wages can be seen from the last time it was cut in 2014. ...

Westpac extends chief executive's contract

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... Peter King's employment contract, removing the initial two-year term. King confirmed he has committed to a multi-year plan to turn the company around. His other contract terms remain unchanged. Chair John McFarlane said King has made significant ...

Ares bids for AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
AMP has confirmed Ares Management has made an offer to takeover 100% of AMP shares. AMP announced to the ASX that it has received an indicative, non-binding, conditional proposal from US-based Ares Management. The offer is to acquire 100% of the shares ...

ANZ sees profits plummet, plans to exit thermal coal

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
ANZ has felt the wrath of the pandemic, reporting a 42% loss on cash profit in its full year results as it tries to protect itself from future credit losses. It has also updated its climate policy, saying it will exit thermal coal by 2030. The bank's ...

Chief economist update: Europe, we have a problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
Just as Victorian Premier Dan Andrews toasted each and every Victorian with caramel-iced doughnuts and a top-shelf bottle of Starward whiskey to celebrate the end of Melbourne's lockdown, European governments -- one after the other -- have been ...