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Not our job to protect big insurers: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
The rise of peer-to-peer insurance and smaller insurance tech companies should be taken as a warning to established players - and APRA isn't going to protect outdated business models from failing. APRA member and former Suncorp Life chief executive ...

Insurers lagging on mental health

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... discriminate based on disability, mental or otherwise, this should only be done to the extent that it affects the risk premium. He said that insurers also need to be more transparent in regards to the reasons behind policy decisions as they pertain to ...

BTFG announces giant Panorama leap

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
BT Financial Group will merge 12 superannuation funds into one as part of the rollout of its $630 million Panorama platform and in a major update of the wealth management business. Announced to the market this morning, BTFG will also move from four ...

Midwinter adds fintech partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... AdviceOS. Omnium's life risk research tool OmniLife has been integrated into AdviceOS to enable real-time flow of insurance premium product data to the AdviceOS Fact Find, Client Portal and Statement of Advice generator. Client data from AdviceOS can ...

Suncorp inches closer to NZ insurer takeover

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... all of Tower's shares at NZ$1.17 each; Suncorp responded with a similar bid at $1.30 per share. The bank paid a slight premium to that offer - $1.40 each - to acquire its current 19.9% stake. Tower chair Michael Stiassny questioned this in an ASX announcement ...

QIC calls out unnecessary risk fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... made to work so much harder, as part of smarter investment strategies. The key is to overcome excessive fear of bond risk premium, and arm yourself with the tools and knowledge necessary to make better-informed decisions for healthier outcomes." QIC ...

BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... available to meet solvency; product feature strength, based on more than 90 product features; overall service quality; premium rates relative to competitors; and market strength, based on sales, market share and growth over the past three years. BTFG ...

Former BT executive to head advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
BT Financial Group's former head of licensee development and BT Group Licensees is the new chief executive of a boutique advice licensee. Annick Donat has joined Madison Financial Group after resigning from BT in December 2016, having spent six years ...

Super industry accepts group insurance needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Several superannuation industry groups recognise there is work to be done to reduce the erosion of member account balances through group life insurance. This recognition comes from the newly-formed Insurance in Superannuation Working Group (ISWG), which ...

Folkestone winds up fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... Brisbane retail and office space, The Station Oxley, to Savills Investment Management for $43.5 million, making a 25.6% premium on its acquisition price from April 2014. Folkestone expects to receive a performance fee of about $800,000 in June 2017 when ...