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AustralianSuper slashes insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
Australia's largest superannuation fund is reducing insurance premiums that will save members $100 million over the next financial year. From May 2018, AustralianSuper and life insurance partner TAL will decrease life insurance premiums by 14% for death ...

NAB appoints new regional advice GM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... "simplifying its business," NAB general manager of advice partnerships Ross Barnwell and NAB Financial Planning general manager Tim Steele joined the bank's consumer banking and wealth leadership team. They both now report directly to Hagger. "We are ...

Fortnum recruits former Centric Wealth chief

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
Fortnum Private Wealth is welcoming a former chief executive of Centric Wealth to its ranks. Glen Castensen joins in an executive position reporting directly to Fortnum managing director Neil Younger. He was most recently a financial services consultant ...

Reskilling: A worthy purpose for super?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
A leading academic is calling for early access to superannuation for the purposes of education and retraining, especially as the risk of losing one's job to automation grows. Speaking at the opening session of the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference ...

Industry fund chief executive departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The long-standing chief executive of an $8.8 billion industry fund has resigned. NGS Super announced Anthony Rodwell-Ball tendered his resignation at the end of 2017, and his time with the fund will finish on 31 March 2018. He will be replaced by general ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The latest NAB business survey indicates that Australian business conditions and confidence started the year 2018 on a stronger footing and before the wailing on Wall Street happened in early February, providing succour to the domestic economy should ...

BetaShares and Legg Mason join forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
A new suite of active exchange-traded funds will be made available via a long-term strategic partnership between BetaShares and Legg Mason. Under the partnership BetaShares and Legg Mason will initially launch two active ETFs with an income objective ...

Challenger flags new Fidante partnership, record profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
In its 2018 first-half results, Challenger highlighted a new European boutique partnership for subsidiary Fidante Partners along with record normalised profit. Challenger explained that Fidante Europe has formed a partnership with US-based specialist ...

O'Dwyer proposes TRIS changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
The Federal Government is pushing for reversionary transition to retirement income streams (TRIS) to be paid to an eligible dependent upon a death, regardless if a condition of release is met. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer ...

AFA working to bust FASEA myths

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
The Association of Financial Advisers has moved to placate its membership under any belief that tertiary degrees completed more than 10 years ago will not be recognised by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority. In a statement on its website ...