Andrew Long
MLC Expand has appointed experienced retirement and partnerships professional Andrew Long as Retirement Specialist, as the provider tries to keep up with the demand for its recently launched MLC Retirement BoostTM solution.
As a Retirement Specialist, Mr Long is responsible for championing the MLC Retirement Boost solution across the market, with a strong focus on engaging licensees and financial advisers.
Mr Long joins MLC Expand after nearly 15 years in a range of strategic retirement partnership roles at CFS, Challenger Limited, TAL and, most recently Resolution Life as their National Institutional Retirement lead.
MLC Expand CEO Liz McCarthy, commenting on Mr Long’s appointment, said: “Since we launched MLC Retirement Boost in August we’ve been really pleased with the feedback and demand from advisers. We’ve 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. We knew the solution, coupled with our innovative partnership with TAL and Challenger, would be of interest to advisers but the response to date – only a few months in – has been really exciting, and has meant we’ve had to expand our team to keep up with this demand.
“I’m 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.”
MLC, in partnership with TAL and Challenger, launched MLC Retirement Boost, an innovative retirement income solution (IRIS), on MLC Expand in August 2025. MLC Retirement Boost will help provide greater certainty and confidence in retirement. It operates like a standard superannuation account, but has the potential to allow Australians to boost income during retirement due to the concessional treatment of innovative lifetime income streams. MLC Retirement Boost was launched on the MLC Expand platform for advisers to use with their superannuation clients in August 2025.
Andrew Long joined MLC Expand on Monday 17 November.