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MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
A woman who has multiple sclerosis (MS) is fighting to have CommInsure recognise her condition, calling into question the various definitions life insurers use. ClaimRight founder William Johns was assisting a client with MS in accessing the insurance ...

Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Alderman said. Shine Lawyers also alleges CBA sold customers overpriced insurance. The law firm filed proceedings against CommInsure on August 21. Class Actions practice leader Craig Allsopp said group members were entitled to compensation because they ...

Actuary of the Year named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... expert consultant to the insurance committee at UniSuper and was previously chief financial officer and chief actuary at CommInsure. She was also chief actuary at NAB Wealth and head of insurance at KPMG earlier in her career. She inspired the establishment ...

Equity Trustees rejigs two leadership roles

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... opportunities available to us here and overseas." EQT's corporate trustee business in FY20 was appointed the trustee for AIA/CommInsure funds ($10.5 billion FUM), authorised corporate director to a suite of River and Mercantile funds ($3.9 billion) and ...

EQT swells revenue by 3.2%

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... supervision crossed the $100 billion mark in the period, after rising 19% in the year. It won the appointments for AIA/CommInsure for in both superannuation trustee and corporate trustee business. The latter segment also picked up contracts with River ...

AMP, BT and CBA to face class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... Super or BT Superannuation Invest Fund plans between 2014 and 2020. Also asked to join the class action by Shine are CommInsure life or income protection policy holders who got their insurance through Commonwealth Financial Planning, Financial Wisdom ...

HUB24 awards super trustee mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... AMP-aligned trustees N M Superannuation and AMP Superannuation. Earlier in the year, it was appointed to AIA-owned CommInsure superannuation funds. "Despite the challenging environment we have continued to invest in the superannuation trustee business ...

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... reality 79% of the fund was tracking an index without any quantitative analysis in June 2017. In 2017, ASIC went after CommInsure for "misleading and deceptive statements" on some of CommInsure websites relating to the extent customers were entitled ...

Advice chief leaves industry fund giant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Somerville was replaced by former Deloitte partner Sarah Woodhouse, who joins the firm as a consultant alongside former CommInsure chief actuary Jennifer Lang. Lang has been appointed as a consultant to the fund's insurance committee. The changes ...

PMIF sees premiums rise for first time in 12 years

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... insurance premiums will increase for the first time in over 12 years," the fund said. The group insurer for ESSSuper is CommInsure, which is now owned by AIA. The PMIF legislation, which comes into effect today, is designed to protect low-balance super ...