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ClearView bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... pricing approaches to product management," Kulikov said. "The life insurance industry's deteriorating performance over the past few years, due mainly to IDII but not exclusively, has forced insurers to review their products and pricing with a greater ...

Northern Trust AM's stellar year

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
Northern Trust Asset Management's local business swelled its client assets by 70% last year as it added four new institutional mandates. The business has been in Australia for about five years, and currently employs seven people with another hire ...

Bennelong hires for new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... boutiques and investments compliance. She has been a strategic product consultant and product adviser with Bennelong for a few months before stepping into the chief client strategy officer role. Prior to that, Haqqani was director, insights and strategy ...

Not-so-Zuper: Super disruptor folds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... significant increase in the amount of regulatory change introduced by the federal government and regulatory bodies over the last few years," Diversa said. "These changes have increased the complexity and cost of administering superannuation funds resulting ...

Perpetual's Garry Laurence starts boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... strong free cashflow. Laurence said the boutique doesn't have a distribution partner and is wholly owned by him and a few others. He is not joined by any other staff from Perpetual's investment team.

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
Active fund managers still have a stronghold of the funds management landscape over passive strategies, overseeing US$2 out of every US$3, a new report finds. Calastone's latest research found that in Australia, inflows to active funds surged in ...

AustralianSuper introduces insurance changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... poor member outcomes off the back of a hoard of super funds - Living Super, HESTA, MTAA Super and LUCRF Super to name just a few - for increasing premiums for little or no value. AustralianSuper group executive of strategy, brand and reputation Sarah ...

Buffett doesn't want to report on diversity, climate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... the board said in its response. "Berkshire manages its operating businesses on an unusually decentralized basis. There are few centralised or integrated business functions. We want our managers to do the right things and we give them enormous latitude ...

Bell AM wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... what has been a difficult period for SMID-cap companies in 2020, we feel that earnings will recover materially in the next few years." UBP undertook a search for a global small and mid cap manager about 18 months ago. The UCITs vehicle was launched recently ...

Remediation services profiting from Royal Commission failures

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... Commission decried. This is more evidence of profits before people, typical of the long history of financial services where a few people continue to make a lot of money from other people's money and ignorance." Legislation is currently on foot that ...