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MetLife welcomes new group product head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
MetLife has confirmed the appointment of a new head of group product, joining from Swiss Re. Dean Mulheron will lead MetLife's group product design and oversee product development and strategy across the group insurance portfolio. Mulheron replaces ...

GAM chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... of evolution would be best served by new leadership. The latest development in what has been a tough few months for the Swiss-based global asset manager, Friedman agreed to step down yesterday with GAM board director and former Henderson Global Investors ...

Macquarie reshuffles asset management lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... of ASX, Qantas, Westfield, Coca Cola Amatil, Woodside Petroleum, and Woodside Petroleum. Broadbent is currently chair of Swiss Re Life and Health Australia; chancellor of University of Wollongong; and a director at Woolworths, Sydney Dance Company and ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... the SIBOS conference in Sydney on Tuesday morning, SIX head of product management and development Valerio Roncone said the Swiss-based fintech believes the next step in custody will be evolutionary, and less about wholesale changes. "We at SIX believe ...

AMP divests life business

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... wealth management and advice business," AMP said. Additionally, AMP has entered into a binding reinsurance agreement with Swiss Re for the New Zealand retail wealth protection portfolio. This is expected to release up to $150 million of capital. This ...

IFM Investors expands to Switzerland

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... also appointed a manager for the new Zurich-based office. IFM Investors already manages about $710 million on behalf of Swiss pension funds in both public and corporate sectors. Chief executive Brett Himbury said the Swiss office shows the institutional ...

Raiz to launch group insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
A partnership between Raiz Invest and Swiss Re will launch new products attempting to disrupt the group insurance market. Raiz, the micro-investing platform, announced it is helping develop a tailored life insurance product within superannuation that ...

Pension fund manager siphons $2m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... trusted member of the team with an appropriate level of responsibility. It was alleged that Woodall transferred the money to Swiss bank accounts held in his and his wife's name and the names of companies owned by Woodall. The money was then transferred ...

Temenos scores digital transformation mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... Headquartered in Geneva, Temenos provides cloud-based banking software that runs on Microsoft Azure. It is listed in the Swiss Stock and provides banking software systems to retail, corporate, wealth managers, and financial institutions.

Macquarie chiefs embroiled in German investigation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... arm seeking €30 million ($48.4m) in damages, a claim the bank "strongly disputes." Two investors had already sued the Swiss bank who introduced them to the investment, and noted the claims of the two investors (and others) had been purchased by the ...