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Super fund restructures, adds new roles

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... better," Proebstl said. He added that legalsuper is currently undertaking a review of its insurance benefit design and benchmarking of services delivered by Link Group as its administrator. He said further announcements will be made in due course as ...

TAL wins life company award for 2021

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... category, while PPS Mutual took out the award for Risk Product Innovation. The awards are based on Plan For Life's benchmarking metrics: financial strength; market share based on sales and growth over three years; a review of over 90 product features ...

Principals' Community retains BT members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
... series of development masterclasses as well as continuing to provide governance support and publishing its industry benchmarking report for the third year running. "For us, 2022 is a year to achieve two things: resuscitate a core value of the community ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... gender data to investments that funds in Europe or the US that might try to do the same thing. "You need a way of benchmarking companies against each other. We said, 'what would it look like to rank Australian companies on gender?' We were able to create ...

Trustees to be quizzed on climate risk management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
... risks into APRA's supervisory assessments," APRA chair Wayne Byres said. "It will also improve comparability and benchmarking and practices within and across industry, and potentially internationally." APRA said it will also consider the benefit ...

Netwealth tops platform ratings

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
Investment Trends has launched its 2021 Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis Report, with Netwealth receiving a near perfect score - just inching out HUB24. Assessed across more than 500 different criteria, Netwealth took the top spot in overall ...

Australian market praised in latest pension study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... "The themes Australian funds need to continue to address resonate with global issues - accountability, increasing benchmarking, collaboration, diversity and evolving risk frameworks - with increasing regulation in particular impacting behaviour with ...

AFCA launches new platform to improve dispute resolution

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
... platform to help financial services firms better manage disputes that reach the ombudsman service. The new AFCA member benchmarking dashboard is an interactive platform for financial firms that provides near real-time complaints data, which is updated ...

Morningstar launches multi-asset indexes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... follows recent research from the rating house which found multi-asset funds lacked sufficiently tailored benchmarks. "Benchmarking a multi-asset portfolio is complex. Morningstar's Indexes gives investors an effective way to benchmark with our solution ...

YFYS spurs half to change asset mix

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... ensure that diversification opportunities are harnessed. When we start to consider tweaking long-term policy style benchmarking and apply it at any level, it needs to be done simply," Mead said. Starting with equity risk premium, Mead said most will ...