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Consulting triopoly dominates NFP super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
Australia's top three asset consultants dominate the not-for-profit superannuation sector, serving 84% of the market. According to Rainmaker Information, JANA, Frontier and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) now control 84% of the advised NFP superannuation ...

Treasury consults on giving AFCA more super powers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
Treasury is consulting on whether the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) should have its remit expanded to deal with more complaints related to superannuation, following the Federal Court's MetLife decision. As it stands, under Part 7.10A ...

Farewell Michael Harrison

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
A veteran of the Australian financial services sector, Michael Harrison is being remembered as a teacher, mentor, and unrelenting advocate for risk advisers after he passed away on Sunday morning, aged 78. Harrison enjoyed a varied and colourful career. ...

Poor policy administration sees MLC Life pay $22m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
MLC Life will pay $10 million, in addition to $12 million in remediation, for failing to pay promised rehabilitation benefits. The life insurer was penalised by the Federal Court after it was found guilty of several breaches of the ASIC Act, the Corporations ...

Tyndall launches Aussie small cap fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
A new small cap fund from Tyndall Asset Management will invest in up to 70 local companies the manager views as undervalued. In what is Tyndall's first fund launch since 2008, the Tyndall AM Australian Small Companies Fund was incepted in March ...

PensionDanmark selects future chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
PensionDanmark appointed Peter Stensgaard Mørch as its new chief executive, to take over after having served a year as deputy chief executive. It was recently announced that Torben Möger Pedersen, the long-serving chief executive of the pension fund ...

E&P Investments hands over RE mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
Following a call for expressions of interest, E&P Investments has selected a new responsible entity (RE) for six of its managed investment schemes. In March, E&P Investments sought to replace itself as RE of the US Masters Residential Property Fund ...

Cbus, EISS Super finalise merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
EISS Super's 17,000 members have combined with Cbus, which now manages more than $80 billion in retirement savings. The completion of the merger comes about 18 months on from the funds signing a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2021. This followed ...

AFCA tallies up COVID-19 complaints

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) received close to 1500 complaints about superannuation funds over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Releasing data now that the World Health Organisation has declared the pandemic over, AFCA said ...

New local lead for Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
Morningstar's Australia and New Zealand business will soon have a new managing director, with Jamie Wickham to leave at the end of the month. Wickham has been with Morningstar since 2006 when it took over Aspect Huntley. He held several senior roles ...