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Zurich UK launches selfie app for underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Zurich has launched facial recognition technology in an effort to promote life insurance adoption across the UK. FaceQuote is able to quote a monthly life insurance premium for prospective customers based on age estimates calculated after a selfie is ...

Bravura scores platform deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
Bravura Solutions won an administration platform mandate from an Australian investment and life insurance company. Garradin, Bravura's investment management and portfolio administration platform will support the Foresters Friendly Society's funeral ...

FSC calls for inquiry into gig economy and its impact on super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... This would include automation, self-employment, contractors and the 'gig economy' on tax revenue, superannuation, life insurance, and retirement savings. "The nature of employment is changing. The era of job certainty, regular hours, and little or no ...

Zurich sells Singapore life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The newest player to enter Singapore's life insurance market is acquiring the business portfolio of Zurich Life Singapore. Singapore Life, which launched in June 2017 as the first new local life insurer to be licensed in Singapore since 1970, will acquire ...

Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
The life insurance market grew 2.4% to $16.2 billion in the year to September, latest statistics from Strategic Insight show. The group insurance segment however, recorded minimal growth, up 1.8% year-on-year to $6.3 billion, with MetLife (14.1%), TAL ...

Financial Standard's top stories of 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... move will occur when HESTA's existing agreement with CommInsure expires. 9. ANZ splits OnePath businesses, revamps life insurance team (17 October) ANZ divested OnePath's pension and investments and four aligned dealer groups to IOOF Holdings for $975 ...

FSC finalises life insurance APL guidelines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
The Financial Services Council finalised the standard for life insurance approved product lists. From 1 July 2018, Australian financial service licencees who are members of the FSC will be required to include three or more life insurers on their APL. ...

AustralianSuper launches insurance-free product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... change with it. The super fund announced in September it gave new members under 25-years-old a choice to opt-in to life insurance. Kerlin at the time said: "People under 25 starting out in the workforce need to begin building a base for their retirement ...

Bravura inks major international deal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... securities markets. Sonata is a wealth management solution capable of supporting investment, wrap, pension and life insurance products across multiple distribution channels. In a statement to the ASX, ASB says it intends to leverage Sonata to underpin ...

Fee-for-service faces ultimate risk test

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
Rollout of the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) on 1 January 2018 will be the strongest test of fee-for-service risk advice, a model seen as imperative to the financial advice industry's future. Industry experts say the critical component to make fee-for-service ...