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Fintech appoints former super fund chief

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... Cuscal Limited and Ruralco Holdings. Previously, Vonhoff worked as a director at AMP Bank, Cabcharge, Tennis NSW and the Westpac Staff Superannuation Fund. She held senior executive roles at Westpac and AMP for 13 years, with experience spanning finance ...

Major life insurers continue to suffer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... CommInsure bled the most, with 20.3% less risk premium inflows compared to the year before, while AMP (-8.9%), BT and Westpac (-6.9%), MLC (-4.5%) and Zurich (-3.2%) all followed suit. MetLife managed to buck the trend growing by 5%, while smaller player ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... from readers and, as you can see below, it's been reflected in the stories we've seen resonate with them too. 1. Westpac mulls sale of in-house planners In February, Financial Standard exclusively revealed Westpac was considering the sale of ...

ASIC eyes claims handling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... ASIC's review. "We found concerningly high decline rates for two insurers: Asteron, which used to be known as Suncorp, and Westpac. These two insurers declined one in three claims," she said. ASIC's report found that most of the issues with TPD come ...

Wealth income halved, Hartzer skips $1.6m bonus

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer relinquished a $1.6 million cash bonus for the year, as income for the group's wealth management business fell significantly. Releasing its annual report and full year results to the market this morning, Westpac ...

CommInsure eyes deferred lifetime annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... Challenger has an 88% market share on annuities, followed by CommInsure ( $458 million in sales for year ending March) and Westpac ($3.8 million in sales).

BT faces fees for no service class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
Westpac confirmed it has received a class action filed against BT Funds Management and Westpac Life Insurance Services in relation to BT's Super for Life cash investment option. Slater & Gordon filed the action on behalf of Tracey Ghee. Westpac ...

Down but not out: Top advisers adapt

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... movement is attributable to large institutions culling or downsizing their wealth operations. After exiting personal advice, Westpac lost 338 advisers since February - the most of any licensee. Securitor shed 146 advisers over the same period, bringing ...

PPS Mutual bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... underwriter at ANZ Wealth. Prior to that, he was a protection specialist at National Australia Bank and senior underwriter at Westpac. He spent five years as a private wealth protection adviser, PPS Mutual say those insights into adviser requirements ...

ASIC slams consumer credit failures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... troubled" by the findings in the report, which included the likes of Commonwealth Bank and its subsidiary Bankwest, ANZ, NAB, Westpac, Suncorp, Citigroup and others. "Lenders and insurers have had more than enough time to improve sales practices and ...