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Qantas Super, Australian Retirement Trust to merge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
Qantas Super is poised to merge with $300 billion industry fund Australian Retirement Trust (ART). Subject to final assessments of members' best financial interests and equivalency rights, the merger would see Qantas Super's $9 billion in funds ...

Group insurance cheaper by 25%: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
Group insurance continues to be cheaper than life insurance purchased directly with an insurer by as much as 25%, new research from Rainmaker Information shows. The latest Rainmaker Benchmarking report finds that cost savings for group insurance members ...

Vanguard Super's default option delivers 13.2% return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
Vanguard Super's default MySuper lifecycle investment option has posted a 13.2% return in its first full financial year. This investment option outperformed some of Australia's largest superannuation funds, surpassing all industry funds on a one-year ...

Federation AM acquires Homesafe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... more Australian homeowners can benefit from our solution." "Having founded the business 19 years ago and at a stage in my life where it was appropriate to find a new custodian of our unique solution, it was pleasing to find an organisation that shares ...

Funds SA, Mercer Super make key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... years' experience in financial services, including 26 years in chief executive roles. "Jim Minto brings deep expertise in life insurance, superannuation, trustee services, managed funds, investment management, financial planning, health insurance ...

Australia climbs global wealth ranks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... Australia performs well on income mobility. "For most Australians, the amount your parents earned when you were young is not a life sentence,' PC chair Danielle Wood said. The report, Fairly equal? Economic mobility in Australia, found that 67% of the ...

MetLife refreshes two products

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... do this by making adjustments that ensure our product remains competitive in a changing market," she said. In April, the life insurer rolled out menopause, fertility, and gender affirmation leave for employees, and extended its parental leave policy. ...

QIC invests in Australian biotech start-up

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
... Meinert said. "This technology is not just a leap forward in terms of innovation; it is a paradigm shift towards creating life-like human tissue models in the lab, which are scalable to industrial requirements and fully compatible with current automated ...

AMP snares retirement expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Aware Super's actuarial practice lead has left to take up a new role at AMP as head of retirement solutions. Estelle Liu has worked at Aware Super since August 2020. Previously, she was a superannuation consultant at Rice Warner and a quantitative ...

Ausbil reshuffles distribution team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... with." Knight said the $18.6 billion fund will continue to work closely with its affiliate companies within the New York Life group to build market share in overseas jurisdictions including the US, Asia, Europe and the UK.