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ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... years in the financial services industry, he is a seasoned leader with deep expertise across general insurance, life insurance and superannuation. Before arriving at ART in 2020, Finney spent 12 years at Suncorp Life, most recently as executive manager ...

Westpac's Yetton chooses to move on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... Mercer. However, Westpac retained its platform businesses, BT Panorama and Asgard. Westpac also walked away from life insurance, offloading its Australian business to Japan's TAL Dai-ichi Life in 2021 for $900 million. He previously undertook a similar ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... capital requirements for annuity products, provided certain risk controls are in place," APRA said. At its July 2024 life insurance roundtable, participants pointed out that aspects of the capital framework are more restrictive than those in overseas ...

Family office CIO joins Heritvest

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... senior roles at National Australia Bank and BNP Paribas. Nassios started his career as an actuarial analyst in life insurance and annuities and later moved to superannuation and investments. A career shift in 2006 resulted in working for the Myer family ...

TAL taps ex-CBA deputy as chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... non-executive director of MLC Super, president and chair of the Actuaries Institute, and president and chair of the Life Insurance Association of Singapore. King has experience in insurance, wealth management, superannuation, investments, and broader ...

Acenda names inaugural chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
MLC Life Insurance has announced who will chair the insurer when it becomes Acenda. MLC Life Insurance, soon becoming Acenda through the merger with Resolution Life Australia, has appointed Craig Dunn to the position and will take effect upon the completion ...

PIMCO local managing director to step down

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... Stewart was in the role for nearly 18 months before he moved on to become the chief executive of Allianz Australia Life Insurance. Mead will stay on until the end of the year. PIMCO also confirmed that Sam Watkins takes over from Mead as head of Australia. ...

Life insurers enhance domestic violence response

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... enterprise Flequity Ventures and the Independent Collective of Survivors, who advised on lived experiences with life insurance and financial safety by design, as well as 20 member companies from CALI's network to understand the full scheme of challenges. ...

Shift needed in retirement income advice: Allianz Retire+

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... every new client." To reiterate the importance of shifting focus to advisers' philosophies, Allianz Australia Life Insurance chief executive Adrian Stewart said retirement advice holds inherent "complexities and emotional challenges". "If advisers ...

Treasury consults on genetic test ban in life insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
The industry can now provide feedback on the proposed ban on the use of adverse genetic test results in life insurance, with Treasury commencing consultation today. Treasury has opened consultation on the complete ban, which was announced in September ...