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iExtend receives AFSL after lengthy wait

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... the benefit if a claim is made. By doing so, it's intended that policyholders who might otherwise cancel or lapse their cover due to cost can remain insured. Its services are only available through financial advisers. The group said it has so far received ...

Aviva exits Australia, shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Aviva Investors is shuttering its Australian office and moving operations offshore as it also terminates its strategy, the Multi-Strategy (AIMS) Target Return Fund. Aviva told investors that it has "recently made the decision to close the investment ...

Morningstar names new manager research lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Morningstar Australasia has recruited a former Insignia Financial executive to lead its manager research team and its coverage of Australian and New Zealand fund managers. Matt Olsen - who joins Morningstar as director of manager research ratings for ...

New recruits top advice industry priority: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
... advisers are forced to pay. The Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) will soon charge the advice sector $18.5 million to cover the period July 1 to 30 June 2025. The upcoming ASIC funding levy, which is divvied up among the number of advisers registered ...

Local Aviva Investors managing director to exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of London insurer Aviva Plc, will farewell its local managing director following a decision to manage distribution from Singapore. Australian managing director Brett Jackson has been with the firm ...

Equip Super reduces admin fees, introduces insurance fee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... on accumulation and defined benefit products. The new fee will apply to accumulation members with basic and/or voluntary cover and defined benefit members with voluntary cover, the fund explained. The fee is calculated at 4% of premiums, which will be ...

Four out of five workers to search for new jobs: Hays

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
Recruitment specialist Hays has reported that four out of five New South Wales workers will look for a new job in the next year. According to the Hays Salary Guide, which surveyed more than 15,000 respondents covering 1250 roles across 26 different ...

Systematic investing in fixed income: Critical success factors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... across a wide range of bond metrics, include point-in-time analytics for companies' financials across multiple fields and cover many fixed income classes globally," AllianceBernstein said. Third and final, the fund manager said any investors who can't ...

UBS institutional client coverage lead departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
UBS Asset Management's local head of institutional client coverage has exited after almost two decades with the firm. Drew Fowler, who has run institutional coverage for four years, confirmed his departure. Fowler started with the Swiss giant's Australian ...

QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
QIC Infrastructure's specialist energy and utilities practice has appointed three new senior executives to originate new investment opportunities. Paul Maguire, Richard Van Breda and Mark Irwin have taken up senior positions within a business that ...