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BGL enhances life insurance solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Self-managed super funds can now obtain quotes and review life insurance policies via SMSF admin software Simple Fund 360. Parent company BGL Corporate Solutions appointed AIA Australia as the underwriter and Australian Group Insurances (AGI) to provide ...

AIST creates lead advocacy role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... responsible for the Future of Financial Advice and Stronger Super reforms as well as a number of regulatory reviews into life insurance within and outside of super. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said Goodwin's appointment will expand AIST's role ...

ANZ launches LIF resource

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
ANZ Wealth has launched an online resource to help prepare financial advisers for the looming Life Insurance Framework (LIF) reforms. The online hub provides guidance on how OneCare commissions will be paid, detail key deadlines and how the transition ...

BTFG widens life insurance APL

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
BT Financial Group advisers will see their life insurance approved product list expand to a minimum of three, up from one currently. At the moment, Westpac Life is the only insurer on the BT Financial Advisers APL, although BTFG noted that over the ...

NZ Super Fund to invest $90m in life insurer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is proposing to invest NZ$100 million ($90 million) in a large life insurance provider, taking a 41.1% stake in the company. Fidelity Life is New Zealand's largest Kiwi-owned life insurer. Subject to shareholder approvals ...

ANZ Wealth partners for mental health support

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... months, 11% of the total claims paid out by ANZ Wealth have been due to mental illness, with ANZ Wealth head of life insurance Gerard Kerr saying the nature of claims is changing. "It's important that we not only provide financial support to customers ...

GPS robo-adviser launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... nothing," he said. The basic option provides free budgeting analysis, tax, investment and super recommendation, and life insurance review. The full digitised adviser option costs $59 per month and charges a 0.3% fee on assets under advice, which includes ...

Advice industry compensation bill hits $37m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... report shows. ASIC also reviewed the claims handling practices of 15 life insurers, covering more than 90% of the life insurance market. Its October 2016 report found significant shortcomings in the claims handling practices, which prompted the need ...

ANZ Wealth drags group's earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... on the previous corresponding period. Cash profit dropped 27% year-on-year to $238 million. Group and individual life insurance reported profit margins of $136 million, down 10% on the prior year. Life insurance in-force premiums were steady at $1.6 ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... affordability of genetic testing and rising public interest in ancestral lineage and health could threaten Australia's life insurance industry, according to the Actuaries Institute. The latest paper from the industry body suggests that even a slight ...