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ReCALIbrate grant winners announced

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2023
... Association Australia (FAAA) Congress in Adelaide. Each ReCALIbrate recipient will also be paired with a senior female life insurance industry leader and can have two in-person or virtual meetings. The purpose of these meetings will be to provide a forum ...

CALI launches scholarship to boost female risk advisers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) has launched a program that aims to entice more women into the life insurance industry. The industry body said its inaugural ReCALIbrate program will provide $2000 in grants to support the attendance of ...

Regulators prioritise emerging areas of risk

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... that is supporting what super funds are already doing. "It's been a very open conversation, sharing case studies of real-life examples. The focus so far has been on really mapping out the key sorts of milestones in the lifecycle of a member and what ...

Future-proofing the super system: Rees

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... sure that the members of super funds have access to default insurance schemes in the event that they strike misfortune in life," he said. "It is worthwhile to go back in history to understand the history of why default insurance exists in superannuation ...

HSBC bails out Silicon Valley Bank UK

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2023
... commercial banking franchise and enhances our ability to serve innovative and fast-growing firms, including in the technology and life-science sectors, in the UK and internationally," HSBC Group chief executive Noel Quinn explained. As of 10 March 2023 ...

CALI progressing well: Mu

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2022
The Council of Australian Life Insurance (CALI) has said a full board will be announced soon, with appointments already made. AIA Australia chief executive and managing director Damien Mu provided an update at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

Reframing disability: A world-changing opportunity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
... financial circumstances, support network and geographic location, what they're doing and how they want to adapt to their life with a disability is very, very different." "That's why it's really important to reflect on all the claims consultants in that ...

Remembering Helen Hewett

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... advocate for suicide prevention and members' mental health - founded SuperFriend, bringing together the super industry, life insurers and mental health sector. She was also passionate about seeing more women in the superannuation industry, co-founding ...

AIOFP blasts 'elitist' young advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... patience for the older adviser who may not have had the opportunity for a traditional university style of education but has life experience, arguably the most important qualification to have," Johnston wrote to members of parliament. Johnston then went ...

APRA hones in on post-retirement products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
... increase from the $17 billion in 2019. "This is not great for retirees, who may be unnecessarily compromising their quality of life. And it's not great for the Australian community, because it means that our otherwise high-quality retirement system ...
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