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AMP to pay $5m for churn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... replacement policies by way of a new application rather than a transfer. More often than not, the policies were with AMP Life. The cancellation of policies and submitting of new applications exposed clients to a number of significant risks. It also saw ...

Free advice for bushfire victims

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... requiring urgent access to their funds, temporarily postponing home loan repayments, a one-off three month waiver form paying AMP life, total and permanent disability, trauma, income protection and business expenses insurance premiums. The package also ...

AMP to cull super trustee, five funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... shift from previous AMP practice whereby the firm's super trustees invested in life-backed insurance policies issued by AMP Life. According to AMP, NM Super will take a "more active role" under the new model, which will see the trustee directly engage ...

Life industry steps toward trust

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... framework. A memorandum of understanding signed by the two groups - whose members include the likes of AIA Australia, AMP Life, BT Life Insurance, ClearView, MLC Life Insurance, TAL Life, and Zurich - is set to ensure collaboration and dialogue between ...

AMP profits dive, chief pay restructured

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... registers. The AMP board decided not to declare an interim 2019 dividend - at least until the completion of the sale of AMP Life. AMP Life earnings of $31 million were down 69% on 1H 2018 which the company puts down to the Protecting Your Super changes ...

AMP announces new strategy, capital raise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... AMP's existing issued capital. The raise is anticipated to be complete by mid-September. "The capital raising and the AMP Life sale will provide the funds to implement immediately our new transformational strategy, which creates a simpler, higher-growth ...

AMP Life sale blocked

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... sale of its life insurance business to Resolution Life is highly unlikely to go ahead. The institution said the sale of AMP Life is highly unlikely to proceed on the current terms do to challenges in meeting the condition precedent to obtain approval ...

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... executive of insurance, superannuation and risk management at AMP. Blight-Johnston also served as the managing director for AMP Life and the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia (NMLA), where she led the development of insurance and superannuation ...

AMP Life appoints temporary investment chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
An AMP Capital executive is filling in for the chief investment officer at AMP Life as the latter takes extended leave. Jeffrey Brunton, a senior investment director at AMP Capital, has taken on the role while Sean Henaghan is taking planned extended ...

Material weakness in super funds, insurers exposed

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... Super, Mercer Superannuation, Perpetual Superannuation, QSuper, Rest, Cbus and Hostplus. The life insurers included: AMP Life, Challenger, MLC and TAL Life. As for the banks, ANZ, NAB, Westpac and Macquarie Bank were put under the spotlight. Consistent ...