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PPS Mutual appoints head of distribution

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025

... opportunity to strengthen adviser partnerships and help deliver even more value to members." PPS Mutual recently announced Anthony Asher as the new chair. Asher is a long-serving academic at the University of New South Wales Business School's risk ...

PPS Mutual appoints new chair

ANGELIQUE MINAS | TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025

Specialist insurance company PPS Mutual has announced Anthony Asher as the new chair of its board of directors. Asher brings 51 years of experience in the global life insurance industry. His career spans across the financial services sector, academia ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025

... the financial resilience of life companies with commercially viable innovation. Associate professor at UNSW Sydney Anthony Asher said the proposed change will "unlikely to make a huge difference to the yield on life annuities, but every little bit helps ...

Anti-hawking laws could dampen super fund advice: Academic

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023

... ability to provide financial advice amid the federal government's proposal to open advice to other channels. Anthony Asher, an associate professor at UNSW Business School, said it would be "overkill to apply it [anti-hawking legislation] to a superannuation ...

ATO can make cost of advice cheaper: Asher

KANIKA SOOD | THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020

In a new paper from Actuaries Institute, Anthony Asher argues financial advice can be made cheaper if the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides some of the data necessary for good advice. Asher added that retirement incomes could rise by 15% to ...

Retirement review goes off the rails

HARRISON WORLEY | FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020

... case for increasing the superannuation guarantee as "tenuous". University of New South Wales associate professor Anthony Asher says some submissions are missing the point of the review entirely. "I haven't looked at all of the submissions, but I do think ...

How key is gender in retirement outcomes?

HARRISON WORLEY | TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019

... met with silence and then laughter at the recent Actuaries Institute Summit in Sydney. UNSW associate professor Anthony Asher, Mercer senior actuary David Knox and Rice Warner founder Michael Rice took to the stage towards the end of the conference to ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018

... shifted from super fund trustees and directors to the regulators, University of New South Wales associate professor Anthony Asher says. Regulators should be making sure super funds are fulfilling their social purpose - which is to look after the members ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016

... further pressure on the Federal Budget and Age Pension. Actuaries Institute retirement income working group convenor Anthony Asher says the data confirms research from other sources that a significant minority of retirees have, in recent years, run out ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013

At the Actuaries Summit held in Sydney this week, Professor Anthony Asher of the Actuaries Institute's Retirement Income Working Group stressed the need to develop a "vibrant annuity market", in line with much of the rest of the world. "It's very difficult ...

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BT appoints new head of strategy

KARREN VERGARA | 10:47AM

A former Allianz Retire+ executive has joined BT as the new head of strategy.

ASX sees trade volumes soar in May

MATTHEW WAI | 12:24PM

ASX saw a substantial growth in trade volumes last month, despite continued lackluster movement in IPOs.

Otivo launches AI-powered financial advice

MATTHEW WAI | 12:21PM

Otivo has launched a mobile app for Australians to access licensed advice powered by AI.

Munro expands access to climate focused fund

VINNY VUCAGO | 12:09PM

The Munro Global Growth Climate Leaders PIE Fund has been opened to retail investors in New Zealand.

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