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Suncorp sells NZ life business to Resolution Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
Resolution Life has acquired Asteron Life New Zealand for NZ$410 million. Resolution Life will buy the business from Suncorp Group. In doing so, it will become the second largest life insurer in New Zealand, with about 165 employees and a network of ...

Count brings advice firm to network

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... Financial Planning licensee Tailored Lifetime Solutions joined Count. Count also acquired Solutions Centric, an Australian company that provides offshore accounting, tax, and SMSF services from India, and finalised its acquisition of Diverger.

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... store on retirement income and annuities research." Dunnin isn't hanging his boots up altogether, however. In a previous life, Dunnin was a high school mathematics teacher. Having now retrained, he plans to return to the classroom, taking on teenagers ...

Melbourne advice firm joins Count

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
... In turn, it expects Fortuna's advisers to join Count's licensee business. It also spent $4.1 million on SMSF services company, Solutions Centric. This month, Count announced the completion of the Diverger acquisition. The group now has 590 financial ...

Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... to prevent the commission of genocide to Gaza" and "take immediate and effective measures to address adverse conditions to life in the Gaza Strip". Defence stocks tend to rally at the onset of a war. Since Russia's invasion, share prices of Thales ...

Vale Lang Walker

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024
... more than anything else in the world and his generosity and affection had no boundaries," the family said. "His zest for life and his relentless pursuit of perfection lives on within everyone in the Walker family." Walker is survived by his wife Sue ...

500 jobs to be axed at abrdn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... abrdn's shares have more than halved since the company was created via a merger of Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in 2017.

ASIC, APRA slam premium hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... than stepped premiums. "Despite consumer expectations that level premiums are more stable than stepped, only one life company made the conscious decision to keep increases for level premiums at a lower rate than for stepped premiums," the letter read. ...

Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... started her operation in 2012 to 2020 when she disappeared. One client in Mackay Chapman's lawsuit, who was retired, saw life savings disappear thanks to Caddick, who operated Maliver without an AFSL and used another company's licence without ...

Buffett outlines plans for Berkshire Hathaway

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
Warren Buffett has laid out plans for Berkshire Hathaway (Berkshire) and his fortune in a rare letter published on the company's website. The legendary investor announced the gifting of 2.4 million Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock (totalling ...
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