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Integrity Life partners for group insurance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
Integrity Life has announced a new partnership with the aim of bringing new levels of flexibility to pooled group insurance arrangements. Integrity Life and Insurope have partnered to bring a multinational pooling offering to the Australian group insurance ...

Key advice reforms tabled

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
New regulation that requires financial advisers to disclose conflicts of interest and stamp out fees-for-no service have been tabled in parliament. The Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2020 aims to strengthen many ...

AMP launches retirement product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
AMP has launched a new retirement product that guarantees the return of capital regardless of market volatility. Available on its MyNorth platform, MyNorth Guarantees aim to help investors nearing retirement protect their nest egg against sequencing ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will open a second infrastructure region in Australia next year, assisting the financial services industry to run applications and serve end users from data centres around the country. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region ...

Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
The major stock exchange has put into motion new rules that will require its companies to have at least one female and one person who identifies as either an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ+ on boards. Nasdaq has filed the proposal with the US Securities ...

Dealer service provider adds former MLC advice firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
ClearView's LaVista Licensee Solutions is adding a former MLC Financial Planning firm. LaVista will provide licensee services to Sydney-based Investorplan. "I get a lot of confidence knowing that LaVista leverages the back-office resources and infrastructure ...

Should remote employees be paid less?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
Over a quarter of US employers say they plan to pay employees based on the location of remote workers for all jobs in 2021. Willis Towers Watson surveyed 344 organisations in North America with 4.83 million employees between October 6 and 21. About ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
A Magellan trust has removed its currency hedging strategy to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value of the Australian dollar are both declining. Magellan High Conviction Trust will move to an unhedged approach to ...

Industry fund shifts service functions to Link

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
A major industry superannuation fund has outsourced all of its service centre functions to Link Group. From 1 March 2021, Hostplus' contact centre, communications, complaints and employer servicing functions will transition to Link Group and housed ...

Business tax expanded to big corporates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The government has expanded its temporary tax write-off measure to include businesses with turnover over $5 billion. Businesses with aggregated turnover over $5 billion due to income from overseas that have invested $100 million intangible depreciating ...