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Super startup returns to drawing board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Female-focused superannuation startup Human Super confirmed its launch plans are on hold as well as the departure of its chief executive after eight months in the role. Human Super interim chair Jeremy Levy told Financial Standard the venture is still ...

Former UBS Wealth boss joins LIC board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... warmly welcomes Lewin and looks forward to her contribution to the company," Argo chief operating officer and company secretary Tim Binks said in company filings. Argo's board is chaired by former BTFG chief executive Ian Martin. Martin has also chaired ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund. River and Mercantile Asset Management is welcoming Tim Horan to lead its Australian and New Zealand operation. The River and Mercantile Global High Alpha Fund opened as a registered ...

ASIC admits AMP inaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... consumers, particularly AMPs tens of thousands of customers. ASIC senior executive leader, financial services enforcement Tim Mullaly responded: "We are subject to confidentiality and are also acutely aware that the announcement of an investigation - ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Just like the other major world central banks that met before it this month - the Fed, ECB and BOJ - the Bank of England (BOE) did not disappoint market expectations (unlike in its May meeting where Governor Carney hinted at a rate hike months before ...

Efficiency and transparency drive client satisfaction during life claims: Beddoes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
Latest Beddoes Institute research reports client satisfaction at claim time is driven by two key factors. Efficiency in claims lodgement, and assessment processes backed by transparent ongoing claims management are the strongest drivers of client satisfaction ...

Hermes launches carbon ESG tool

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
The $60 billion global manager will launch a tool to calculate a fund's carbon performance and carbon risk as a part of its ESG toolkit to help fund managers make better decisions about investments. Hermes Investment Management will also use the tool ...

Russell Master Trust COO departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
The chief operating officer of Russell Investments' Master Trust and Russell iQ platform has left the company after about 15 years. Jason Marler joined Russell in 2004 as a senior product manager before taking on his most recent role three years ...

Boutique asset managers co-appoint distribution head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
Two boutique asset managers jointly appointed a new head of distribution for the Australian market. Katana Asset Management has about $60 million split between a listed investment company and an unlisted unit trust, while Insync Funds Management has ...

Super fund rationalisation painful: PwC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
The superannuation industry shouldn't underestimate the pain or amount of difficulty it will experience if the proposed rationalisation of underperforming funds eventuates, the second day of Productivity Commission public hearings was told in Melbourne. ...