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FEATURE | Retirement | A layer of confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
... life in retirement than they could have," Huppert says. "Research shows that people spend more when they've got an annuity that they feel more confident and more comfortable spending when in retirement. "Another key benefit is cognitive decline ...

Generation Life confirms personal information leaked in cyber incident

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2026
... confirmed in April other subsidiaries Evidentia Group and Lonsec Research & Ratings were not affected. Last month, the annuity provider named Norlena Brouwer as its chief risk officer. She spent over a year as head of business risk and compliance for ...

Generation Life snags super fund's head of risk

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
Generation Life has named its chief risk officer, recruiting from Aware Super. Norlena Brouwer is joining the annuity provider as chief risk officer, after spending over a year as head of business risk and compliance for enablement, transformation and ...

CFS plots 'largest' retirement product expansion with new alliance

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... investment-linked annuities. For Challenger, CFS is integrating innovation retirement income solutions (IRIS) and the full suite of annuity capabilities. Meanwhile, Generation Life's investment-linked IRIS will be integrated onto FirstChoice and ...

Nearly $12bn leaves Challenger in March quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2026
... $104.5 billion in the March quarter. The annuities business fared better with life sales rising by 19% to $1.7 billion. Annuity sales grew by 10% to $1.1 billion, driven by strong domestic annuity and offshore reinsurance annuity sales. Local annuity ...

APRA launches 'advanced illiquidity premium' to capital framework reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... maintaining appropriate safeguards," APRA added. A broad set of products will be eligible for the AILP, including all annuity products such as term certain annuities, as well as lifetime income products and innovative retirement income stream products ...

Challenger results a 'headline miss'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... retirement income." Hamilton added that Challenger remains focused on international growth opportunities, saying offshore annuity sales have reached record levels. "We are actively growing our partnership with MS Primary through an expansion of our Bermuda ...

DC funds "leaving member money on the table": Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... deficiencies. "The ideal system does have some longevity protection in it, so you mix a drawdown benefit with a deferred annuity or an annuity so that people don't run out of money," he added. Whether this is "basic use of an annuity market, which is ...

Revolution AM appoints distribution lead to drive expansion

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... combined funds under management (FUM). Prior to EGG, Price spent 12 years at Challenger as a state manager, building the annuity provider's managed funds and retirement products distribution teams. "I'm excited to join Revolution at such a pivotal ...

Damian Graham jumps to Challenger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... have been in partnership since 2023 when the former was selected by Aware Super to provide a $619 million group lifetime annuity policy to de-risk some of its lifetime pension liabilities. Challenger was selected as it was well placed to meet the needs ...
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