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Global group adds to local leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... international group to lead the introduction of its investment capabilities to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Munich Re has confirmed to Financial Standard it is bringing its savings and investments business to Australia, to be led by Alex Francois ...

IOOF establishes super trustee office

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... non-executive roles, in both the listed and non-listed spaces," Griffiths said. Former Actuaries Institute president and Munich Re chief risk officer Lindsay Smartt has also joined the boards of IOOF and IOOF Investment Management as a new independent ...

New insto sales lead at Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... this, he worked at AMP Capital in its institutional business. He has also previously held roles with Legal & General and Munich Re. Robeco had $263 billion in assets under management, 71% of which was institutional, as at December end. In May 2018, Robeco's ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... financial business," he said. "We are seeing a shift from scale of capital being critically important to scale of data." Munich Re chief executive of digital partners Andrew Rear said: "The big difference now is the sheer volume of the data available ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... following the appointment of Mark McCrea as head of operations and Jacqueline Little as head of group product. Former Munich Re Group managing director for Australasia Heinrich Elder was also appointed to the insurer's board as an independent non-executive ...

Integrity Life expands senior team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... Heinrich Eder to its board as an independent non-executive director. Eder joins Integrity after a 36-year career at Munich Re Group, where he spent the last decade as managing director of Australasia. He has held various directorships and adviser roles ...

Powered by Lloyds and KPMG, insurtech offers cybersecurity insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... teamed with KPMG to provide critical response capability to help SMEs recover quickly from a cyber threat or breach. Munich Re Syndicate at Lloyd's has underwritten the Edmund project. Munich Re Syndicate Limited's London-based chief underwriting ...

Industry fund chases insurance giant on climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... billion as a result of natural disasters - a significant increase on the US$439 million paid out in 2016. According to Munich RE, 2017 saw costs climb to the second highest in insurance history, with an increased volume of natural disasters costing about ...

AMP names new chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... role. Prior to moving to Australia, she was a partner at EY Canada, and chief risk officer at Aviva North America and Munich Re. AMP recently appointed former CommInsure executive manager of life claims, Vicky Galanis, as a senior manager of insurance ...

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... in the program) it resulted in MetLife deploying 10 new technologies across the business very effectively, he said. Munich Re head of research and development in the life insurance sector, Vanessa Dobson said: "Insurers seem to be angling toward a greater ...