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ANZ revamps life insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
ANZ's OneCare is enhancing its insurance offering with the introduction of a tiered benefit structure and by helping customers return to work quicker. Income Secure Essentials and Severity Trauma, which are a part of the OneCare range of life products ...

Australian investment firm opens London office

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
A Sydney-based global asset management firm is seeing in the new financial year with the opening of a research office in London. Antipodes Partners, which first launched in 2015 through former deputy chief investment officer of Platinum Asset Management ...

Fund manager chief steps down, appoints investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
UCA Funds Management is searching for a new chief executive and recently appointed a new investment director. Michael Walsh led The Uniting Church in Australia's investment management arm, with $1.1 billion in funds under management, for more than four ...

AZ NGA continues acquisition spree

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
AZ Next Generation Advisory completed its 31st transaction in just over two years with the acquisition of an advice practice previously licensed under Charter Financial Planning. Farrow Hughes Mulcahy (FHM) currently employs eight advisers who specialise ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Three years of global research on fintechs has delivered an optimistic assessment about their disruptive and transformative role in financial services. The research culminated in an 197-page report released by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte ...

Indefensible bonuses cause for concern: ACSI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Despite a general consensus that bonuses are only paid in the event of exceptional performance, about 90% of ASX100 chief executives received a bonus in FY16. While the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' annual survey of chief executive ...

Annuity sales soar as deferred products loom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
The increasing need for financial advisers to develop income layering strategies for clients has helped drive Colonial First State's lifetime annuity sales up by more than 80% in the last 12 months. Now with $850 million in annuities under administration ...

CBA faces shareholder class action

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
The Commonwealth Bank is potentially facing the largest shareholder class action in Australian history, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. In a statement, Maurice Blackburn said it was partnering with litigation funder IMF Bentham to open registrations ...

MBS Insurance welcomes two partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
Specialist risk advice practice MBS Insurance promoted two of its financial advisers to partners. Both Chris MacKenzie and Brent McCullough joined Sydney-headquartered MBS Insurance about five years ago. MacKenzie joined the firm as an insurance adviser ...

ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
About $618.8 million was paid in compensating and remediating corporate misconduct in the six months to June - almost a fourfold increase on the second half of 2016. During the period, ASIC removed 23 individuals from working in financial service; commenced ...