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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 ...

CSC sells down data centre holdings to Future Fund, Infratil

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... and innovative provider of highly secure data centres." "Our thematic foresight, coupled with a capability to identify the best asset through which to gain managed-risk exposure to technological innovation, has enabled CSC's investment team to generate ...

UniSuper prepared for buying opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... options with higher exposure to those assets to deliver a strong performance in the 12 months to December 2024. "Our two best performing investment options for the 12 months to 31 December 2024 were Global Companies in Asia and International Shares ...

Platforms placate fee consent ordeal: SuitabilityHub

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
Platforms have vastly improved their bulk processing capabilities, particularly as financial advisers come to dread the new fee consent renewal process, SuitabilityHub managing director Recep Peker says. This is one of the main findings in SuitabilityHub's ...

Perpetual receives fresh KKR bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... but did not provide any details surrounding the bid. The new bid comes after Perpetual deemed the previous offer not in the best interests of shareholders in December 2024. An independent expert informed the wealth manager that the risk and magnitude ...

Centaur goes self-licensed, appoints former dealer group head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... its own destiny, be ambitious, and go for growth. "We know it's not easier. We didn't choose an easy option; we chose the best option," Robertson said. "You don't go into an AFSL thinking there's less compliance - it's more - but we think we can impact ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... reads. The report also called for ensuring shareholders pay regulatory fines, as opposed to consumers; for APRA to report on Best Financial Interest Duty compliance of super funds; and competency rules that require super fund directors and chairs to ...

Australian Retirement Trust, Qantas Super set merger date

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... approach. Throughout the merger process, ART has demonstrated its strong commitment to taking care of our members and their best financial interests," he said. Qantas Super announced it was exploring merger options in September 2023, and that it had ...

High-profile stockpicker hires from WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... replace Dania Zinurova who is understood to be switching roles internally. "Zinurova has done a phenomenal job in building a best-in-class institutional alternatives fund which is liquid and accessible to everyone in the market," Kelly said. I'm ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... as a trustee director. Her deep experience and leadership capacity will be valued as we seek to ensure ART is positioned best for the future," "At ART, we respect the achievements of Brighter Super in the market and are equally pleased that Jenny has ...