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Freedom Insurance misses reporting deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has failed to file FY19 interim results and its shares remain suspended. The embattled firm provided an update on its financial position to the ASX overnight, stating it is "unable to provide an accurate estimate of when the ...

Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
Freedom Insurance Group has requested the ASX to suspend its shares indefinitely. Freedom first requested a trading halt on February 5 based on a "pending announcement providing a material update on the financial position of Freedom and its subsidiaries." ...

Pendal acquires Regnan

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... years. She was replaced by Pauline Vamos who left after 12 months and later joined the embattled insurer Freedom Insurance Group. Regnan's acting chief executive Alison George said: "This represents an exciting new chapter for Regnan, allowing us ...

Freedom ditches life insurance sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
Freedom Insurance Group announced it will stop selling life insurance products and alerted shareholders of the likelihood it will face a liquidity crisis next year. The board of the embattled insurer has decided to search for alternative business models ...

Vamos joins embattled insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... which was taken to task during the Royal Commission. Vamos is now a non-executive director on the board of Freedom Insurance Group, the insurer that was admonished in the sixth round of the Royal Commission for deliberately selling insurance products ...

Freedom drops chief, slashes workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
The chief executive of Freedom Insurance Group has left the company effective immediately and more than half of its workforce is being made redundant. Chief executive Keith Cohen, who has been at the helm for nearly nine years, will be replaced by chief ...

Life insurer undertakes strategic review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... at the Royal Commission, an ASX-listed life insurer has announced it is undertaking a strategic review. Freedom Insurance Group said the decision to assess its options was spurred by the release of ASIC's review into direct life insurance last week. ...

Freedom acquires bank insurance arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Freedom Insurance Group (FIG) announced it will acquire a bank's insurance arm for $65 million. FIG has entered into an agreement to purchase St Andrew's Insurance from the Bank of Queensland in a bid to diversify its insurance products. The specialist ...

Commonwealth Bank recruits Suncorp executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... recent departures from Suncorp. Earlier this month, executive manager of life and group Craig Orton joined Freedom Insurance Group as its new chief operating officer. Prior to that, Clime Investment Management appointed Maria Greensill as its head of ...

Former Suncorp executive joins Freedom Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
Freedom Insurance Group has appointed an insurance expert to a newly-created chief operating officer role. Craig Orton, whose experience spans life, general, reinsurance and health insurance, joins Freedom Insurance from Suncorp, where he was executive ...