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Colonial First State names head of insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... months as head of group pricing. He brings more than 20 years' experience in insurance, having also held senior roles with Swiss Re and Hannover Life Re Australasia. He also spent over five years at MLC working across group life, retail, and direct life ...

UBS appoints new sector heads for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
UBS has named new sector heads for its sell-side equities coverage, including a hire from Credit Suisse. Andrew Adams will lead UBS's coverage of insurance and diversified financials. Adams has worked at Credit Suisse for the last 10 years, covering ...

AIA Australia appoints behavioural economics lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
The life insurer has appointed a head of behavioural economics and design, hiring from Swiss Re. Alison Mclean moved into the role on July 1 and is a part of the AIA Australia strategy team, which reports to AIA Australia's chief strategy officer ...

Former CBA, MLC executive joins reinsurer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
A former CommInsure and MLC executive has returned to Australia to lead local client solutions for a global reinsurer. Martyn Gilling has been appointed head of client solutions at Pacific Life Re Australia, in a role that will see him assume responsibility ...

Industry fund secures stake in asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... the $4.2 billion firm's first international investor. Other shareholders include Baumann & Cie, Raiffeisen Switzerland, Swiss Re Foundation and Vontobel Beteiligungen AG, in addition to private investors. "Christian Super and responsAbility have both ...

Suncorp Super appoints new chair

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... addition to Mercer, she also serves as a non-executive director of IMB Limited, Australian Philanthropic Services and Swiss Re, and is deputy chair of Athletics Australia. She has been a member of the Suncorp Portfolio Services board since August 2013 ...

Swiss Re to manage Freedom remediation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
Swiss Re has agreed to take on the responsibility of designing and managing Freedom Insurance Group's customer remediation program. Freedom confirmed Swiss Re as the remediation manager, and Genus Life Insurance Services Pty Ltd as the third party to ...

Former TAL chief appointed at Swiss Re

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
A former boss of TAL joined the Australian boards of Swiss Re. Jim Minto was recently appointed as a director to Swiss Re Life & Health Australia and the firm's advisory board. The former TAL chief executive and managing director currently serves on ...

Australia Day honours recognise industry stalwarts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... Hoare was chair of Bankers Trust for 20 years. Also awarded a Companion in the General Division, Macquarie director and Swiss Re Australia chair Jillian Broadbent received recognition for service to corporate, financial, clean energy and cultural organisations. ...

Raiz expands offshore

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... The company has branched out into superannuation, having recently developing a tailored group insurance product with Swiss Re. The deal involves jointly researching and developing customised group insurance products using machine learning algorithms ...