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Life insurers enhance domestic violence response

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) released new best practice guidance on family and domestic violence that sets new benchmarks for life insurers to better understand and engage with victim-survivors. The detailed framework will help Australian ...

Dexus delivers profit, flags 'turning point'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
Dexus delivered a statutory net profit after tax of $10.3 million in the six months to 31 December 2024 - a major change compared to the $597.2 million net loss after tax in HY24. Dexus chief executive Ross Du Vernet said the group had progressed its ...

Challenger profits up, share price falls

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
Challenger has reported a normalised net profit after tax (NPAT) of $225 million, up 12%, driven by higher earnings across its retirement income brand, Life, and its funds management division, according to its first-half 2025 results announcement. The ...

CSC sells down data centre holdings to Future Fund, Infratil

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
The Future Fund and Infratil will up their stakes in a local data centre services provider as the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) sheds some of its holdings. CSC has agreed to offload 12.04% of the ordinary shares it holds in Canberra ...

Iress creates dedicated customer role

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Iress has created a new position to strengthen its advice technology offerings, hiring the head of Count Financial. Adam Webb has been appointed to the newly created role of executive general manager, customer, effective March. In his new role, Webb ...

EQT brings new strategy to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
Local individual and institutional investors now have access to a new semi-liquid strategy from EQT - EQT Nexus Infrastructure. The evergreen strategy provides access to a diversified set of strategies across EQT's €75 billion global infrastructure ...

Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Rest is the latest fund to botch its handling of insurance - this time for incorrectly charging uninsured members for coverage - adding to a growing pile of industry failures. Rest's mishandling comes as other major superannuation funds have been caught ...

Bravura delivers profit, pays special dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
Bravura has delivered an underlying net profit of $11.3 million in 1H25, up $13 million compared to 1H24. Following the turnaround in financial performance, Bravura said it is now able to recommence dividend payments. In addition, a special dividend ...

Briefcase launches five SMAs on Praemium

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
Direct indexing platform Briefcase has partnered with Praemium to launch five separately managed accounts (SMA) for retail investors. The five diversified risk-based model portfolios of Conservative, Moderate, Balanced, Growth, and High Growth are now ...

MLC Life names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
Melissa Ammon is taking over as MLC Life Insurance's chief risk officer on a permanent basis. Ammon has been acting in the role since September 2024 when Jane McGovern was appointed chief customer and strategy officer. She first joined MLC Life in 2024 ...