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People & Products
WealthO2 has appointed Phil Anderson as national business development manager to meet growing demand for the company’s adviser platform alternative....
People & Products
KPMG has appointed Pauline Blight-Johnston as life insurance sector lead partner in its actuarial and financial risk practice....
People & Products
Ausbil Investment Management has announced the appointment of Vicki Gemisis as chief financial officer....
Features
As future retirees weigh up their options on how to best distribute their post-retirement income, Chris Dastoor finds that annuities offer part of a greater option to mai...
People & Products
Investment management firm Challenger has announced its range of annuities is available via Netwealth, expanding the firm’s distribution network. ...
Financial planning
Challenger Funds Management chief executive, Ian Saines is to retire from the business, prompting the search for a successor....
People & Products
Challenger has announced its full range of fixed term and lifetime annuities are available via HUB24’s investment and superannuation platform....
Financial planning
Challenger has reported that a 13 per cent drop in its annuity sales was the result of lower Japanese sales and disruption to the Australian retail financial advice marke...
Life/Risk
Challenger has announced the expansion of its relationship with MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings to support its growth both in Australia and internationally....
Funds management
Two new partners have signed up to Future IM/Pact, a campaign launched last year aimed at attracting more diversity to investment management, bringing the number signator...
Tools & guides
Minh Ly breaks down the new means testing rules for lifetime income streams, which have now been legislated by Parliament....
Financial planning
Challenger Limited has confirmed the degree to which the negative perception of advisers generated by the Royal Commission is hitting its bottom line....
Financial planning
Challenger Limited has hit choppy waters with challenging market conditions dragging on its half-year profit....
Financial planning
New research has pointed to financial planners seeing themselves as being more comfortable as asset allocators rather than stock-pickers and leaning towards goals-based a...
People & Products
Challenger has looked internally naming Angela Murphy as the executive to replace Richard Howes as he steps up to the chief executive role next year....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...