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Boutique hires fund services lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
A boutique trustee firm has appointed a long-serving Perpetual employee as its head of fund services. John O'Connell will become the head of fund services at AMAL Trustees on April 1. Perpetual confirmed that O'Connell has left the firm and that Aaron ...

Life Company of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has announced the winner of its 2020 Life Company of the Year award, going to the same insurer four years in a row. TAL took out the top spot again with runners up AIA Australia, MLC Life Insurance and NEOS Life. ...

Turnbull calls out Wilson, Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has turned on his former colleagues, Tim Wilson and Andrew Bragg, saying their proposal to give people access to super to spend in the housing market is "just wrong". Speaking with Industry Super Australia chair ...

MetLife appoints former Premier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
MetLife Australia has announced the appointment of head of external affairs and public policy, hiring from the Finance Sector Unit (FSU). Nathan Rees is set to take on the new role at MetLife leaving his previous position at the FSU where he was the ...

Former QIC executive joins Qualitas

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
Qualitas has appointed former QIC executive director Brian Delaney to its board. Delaney joined Qualitas on March 1, replacing Carol Schwartz who retired after 12 years as a non-executive director. At QIC, Delaney spent more than eight years in senior ...

ERS disproportionately impacted women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
According to analysis from Rest, the "pink recession" might have been exacerbated by the government's early release of super program. More than half a million women accessed their super early as part of the scheme. Industry super fund Rest, which has ...

OpenMarkets raises $10m, moves up ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
OpenMarkets is set to list later this year, having secured $10 million in a pre-IPO fund raise as it overtook CMC Markets as second-largest retail broker in Australia. Now trailing only CommSec, OpenMarkets says feedback from investors in the oversubscribed ...

APRA calls out poor group insurance practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
The prudential regulator has lambasted the group insurance sector for several practices it deems disagreeable, casting doubt over the future viability of insurance provided via superannuation. APRA recently wrote to superannuation funds and life insurers ...

Cost of living eroding super: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
The cost of food and healthcare continue to eat up retirees' nest eggs, according to a retirement index that shows overall day-to-day necessities are becoming too expensive. The latest estimates from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Australian equities funds downgraded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
Morningstar's latest report card for Australian equities funds has downgraded more funds, including strategies from Pendal and Fidelity, than it upgraded. Morningstar's latest Australian Equities Sector Wrap downgraded 10 funds, upgraded nine and commenced ...