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Wealth fintech partners with Milliman

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Ignition Wealth has struck a partnership to use Milliman's data expertise in developing its white label digital engagement and financial advice solutions. The two have started work on building advice solutions, with artificial intelligence, machine ...

Retirement spending declines faster than believed: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... retirement progresses than traditionally believed, calling for a change in how retirement products are designed. Research from Milliman shows the median Australian retiree couple's spending at 85 years of age falls by more than a third (36.7%) from their ...

Milliman launches course correction tool for retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Milliman is rolling out a new retirement portfolio strategy which aims to apply a capital protection overlay to hedge against downside risk in equity markets. The product is called Even Keel. As explained by Milliman practice leader Wade Matterson in ...

Milliman hires for greater adviser exposure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
A former head of adviser solutions at Morningstar Australasia is taking on a newly created role at Milliman. Andrew Whelan has been appointed as director, adviser services at the actuarial firm. He will be responsible for spearheading the development ...

AMP flags new practice management platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... requirements and reduce operational costs." The wealth group described Goals 360, which was developed in partnership with Milliman, as being able to run 1000 different scenarios to determine potential advice outcomes. It will be rolled out to the AMP ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Milliman practice leader Wade Matterson thinks the Australian wealth industry should be called to account for creating a raft of "very cheap, generic retirement income products based on a lot of averages." Matterson explained that Milliman analyses ...

Derivatives costly and ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... strategies due to high costs and lack of effectiveness, latest research shows. Only one-third (37%) of superannuation funds in Milliman's latest survey are using derivatives to protect retirees against market downturns. Milliman head of fund advisory ...

Super funds embrace derivatives to meet retirement goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... increasingly using derivatives to combat sequencing risk as the demand for more retirement-focused products grows, the latest Milliman survey shows. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage said as financial planning shifts to more goals-based ...

AMP introduces facial recognition for mobile clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... recent enhancement of its goals-based advice business. Advisers at AMP Advice will now use real-time modelling built by Milliman to demonstrate to clients varying consequences of financial decisions made using AMP's goals-based framework. The use of ...

AMP rolling out enhanced goals-based advice business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... work through the firm's goals-based advice framework. The sophisticated modelling engine was built by actuarial firm Milliman and the latest update aims to help clients have a conversation about goal "trade-offs". AMP director of advice channel strategy ...