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Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... year on year, while education and training or utilities grew by 4.3% annually. Workers in the financial services and insurance sectors saw a 3.6% annual wage increase. "Private wages tend to be more reflective of market conditions though: private wages ...

Janus Henderson to buy private credit manager Victory Park Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... Janus Henderson said. "Victory Park Capital's long-standing partnerships with global institutional clients, including insurance companies, pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds, will enhance Janus Henderson's position in the global institutional ...

Acquisitions boost WT Financial Group results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... acquisition of Millennium3 Financial Services from Insignia Financial, paying $2 million. Some 75 wealth and personal risk insurance practices joined WTL, adding about $5 billion to funds under advice (FUA). The WTL advice networks, which also comprises ...

AFCA urges super trustees to improve processes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... jumping 9% to 105,000. Preliminary numbers show scam-related complaints drove the surge, together with motor vehicle insurance, banking, finance, and general insurance sector-related issues. Scam-related complaints rose 81% to 10,951 in FY24, averaging ...

Australia's safety nets 'stretched too thin': CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... safety nets more important. The inaugural State of Australia's Safety Net report investigates the link between life insurance and the personal and financial wellbeing of some 5000 Australian workers. The report finds that younger workers (aged 18-34 ...

Financial services experiencing 'workforce transformation'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... "Communication skills are one of the biggest challenges for millennial leaders coming up through the ranks in the finance and insurance industry," the whitepaper said. "Leaders managing cross generational teams are quickly learning that an overreliance ...

Iress snags Insignia Financial executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... hiring from Insignia Financial. Sam Wall has over 25 years' experience in superannuation, investments, wealth and insurance, leading teams across product, advice, operations and technical services. He replaces Paul Giles, who was appointed as chief ...

TelstraSuper fields influx of merger offers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
After announcing in May that it is looking to merge, TelstraSuper has received "a high level of interest" from its peers. In an update on the merger process, TelstraSuper said its board is currently considering information provided by a range of superannuation ...

AMP sells advice licensees to Entireti, AZ NGA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... litigation relating to the advice business, including the ongoing class action related to commissions for advice and insurance advice. Proceedings for this case are listed for a four week trial in the first half of 2026.

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... 2010 that increases in living costs for all household types were higher than the increase in the CPI," Marquardt said. Insurance and financial services, which includes mortgage interest charges, and food and non-alcoholic beverages were the main contributors ...