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Actuaries Institute appoints 2020 president

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
The Actuaries Institute has appointed a new president for 2020, with eyes set on giving young actuaries a voice. Hoa Bui, currently also a director at KPMG Actuarial and partner-in-charge of actuarial and financial risk at KPMG Australia, has nabbed ...

WTW boosts Australian leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... superannuation consultant for seven years before moving into the investments team. Barrett is also a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and received his Bachelor of Commerce and Applied Finance from Macquarie University. In addition, the ...

TAL executive jumps to MLC Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... he was a partner of Ernst & Young and Regional chief financial officer of AXA Asia Life. Kent is also a fellow of the Actuaries Institute, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has served ...

Industry butt heads over super guarantee

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... system, yet all agree it's time for an upheaval. In a submission to the Treasury's Retirement Income Review Panel, the Actuaries Institute called for universal superannuation guarantee (SG) coverage for all Australian workers, including the self-employed ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
The Actuaries Institute has called for urgent reform of Australia's $5 billion disability income insurance sector. The institute said it has established a taskforce saying that failure to implement significant changes will reduce consumer access to ...

AMP adds competitors to platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... advisers and super and pension clients of MyNorth, North, Summit, ipac iAccess and Generations. It comes as Plan For Life Actuaries revealed life insurance risk premium inflows and sales ended 2019 down significantly. The entire life insurance sector ...

Masterfunds up $26 billion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... final quarter of 2019 saw Australian funds under management on platforms jump by $26 billion. According to Plan For Life Actuaries, masterfunds ended the year to 30 September 2019 up 3% - amounting to $26 billion. Total FUM for masterfunds now stands ...

$3.3 billion fall in retail managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... out of retail funds to First State Super has had a significant impact on the retail market, according to Plan For Life Actuaries. Plan For Life revealed overall retail managed funds at the end of the September 2019 quarter totalled $976.1 billion, up ...

Super funds set to dominate ASX: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... superannuation funds, given that there are also individuals and companies seeking to invest non-superannuation monies." Deloitte Actuaries and Consultants principal Diane Somerville warned the firm's analysis showed that regardless of whether improvements ...

Actuaries develop retiree rule of thumb

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
A group of actuaries have answered the calls of retirees looking for a simpler way to determine how much money they should draw out of their savings in retirement, developing a new three-part rule of thumb. The Rule of Thumb Working Group has developed ...