{"id":296669,"date":"2025-11-20T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296669\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:44:10","slug":"mlc-expand-adds-retirement-muscle-to-new-joint-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296669\/","title":{"rendered":"MLC Expand adds retirement muscle to new joint solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"yoast\"><a href=\"https:\/\/financialnewswire.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/financialnewswire.com.au\/.\/superannuation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superannuation<\/a> &gt; MLC Expand adds retirement muscle to new joint solution<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1200\" height=\"620\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image nectar-lazy toploaded loaded nectar-lazy toploaded loaded\" alt=\"Andrew-Long\" title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-nectar-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Headshot_Andrew-Long_1200.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Headshot_Andrew-Long_1200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MLC Expand has announced the appointment of seasoned retirement partnership professional, Andrew Long, to spearhead its <a href=\"https:\/\/financialnewswire.com.au\/investment\/insignia-tal-and-challenger-partner-in-major-retirement-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new MLC Retirement Boost solution, launched in partnership with TAL and Challenger back in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the role of Retirement Specialist, Long will take on responsibility for growing the solution\u2019s presence in the market by further engaging with licensees and financial advisers. His appointment comes as MLC Expand says the solution has seen significant demand from financial advisers since it was launched.<\/p>\n<p>Long brings a wealth of experience to the new role, having enjoyed several strategic retirement partnership positions at Colonial First State (CFS), Challenger Limited and TAL, joining from Resolution Life where he was the National Institutional Retirement lead.<\/p>\n<p>Now available on the MLC Expand platform for advisers to use with their superannuation clients, MLC Retirement Boost is designed to strengthen confidence in retirement by allowing account holders to grow their income during the retirement phase by utilising the concessional treatment of lifetime income streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">\u201cSince we launched MLC Retirement Boost in August we\u2019ve been really pleased with the feedback and demand from advisers. We\u2019ve been really impressed with the demand from advisers and licensee groups wanting to hear more about the solution, and start recommending it to their clients,\u201d MLC Expand chief executive, Liz McCarthy, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">\u201cWe knew the solution, coupled with our innovative partnership with TAL and Challenger, would be of interest to advisers but the response to date \u2013 only a few months in \u2013 has been really exciting, and has meant we\u2019ve had to expand our team to keep up with this demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to welcome Andrew to the MLC Expand team and think his specialised experience in retirement solutions will be beneficial to our internal teams, as well as the licensees and advisers we work with, as we continue to see demand for MLC Retirement Boost grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home &gt; Superannuation &gt; MLC Expand adds retirement muscle to new joint solution MLC Expand has announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[90186,64,63,99,17570,186,112836,49692,170083,184,185,1793,170084,29136,5792,170085],"class_list":["post-296669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-appointment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-challenger","tag-finance","tag-financial-advisers","tag-insignia-financial","tag-mlc-expand","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-retirement","tag-retirement-boost","tag-retirement-income","tag-superannuation","tag-tal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}