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Integrity Life expands senior team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... insurance companies, underwriting agencies, insurance and reinsurance brokers, and served as a director of the Insurance Council of Australia and ANZIIF. Chair Eric Dodd said: "Heinrich's extensive leadership and sector experience ideally complements ...

FSC responds to direct life insurance findings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... regulatory regime for the insurance industry, calling the Financial Services Council, Code Governance Committee, and Insurance Council of Australia to take the witness stand.

Life insurers take the Royal Commission stand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... regulatory regime for the insurance industry, calling the Financial Services Council, Code Governance Committee, and Insurance Council of Australia to appear before counsel assisting. The sixth round of hearings will begin on Monday, September 10, with ...

FSC aggregates insurance industry data

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... Financial Services Council is launching a multi-million-dollar data project that will aggregate and distribute life insurance industry data. FSC chief executive Sally Loane announced the project's delivery in Melbourne today, the culmination of two ...

Future of superannuation leads FSC Summit

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... superannuation industry should brace itself for fewer legacy arrangements, fewer accounts, and greater demand for needs-based insurance. This was a key message from PwC asset and wealth management leader Craig Cummins as he opened the Financial Services ...

Industry stakeholders welcome PC report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... only once, a 'best in show' shortlist of large default super funds, preserving choice and competition and significant insurance reforms are worthy ideas that should be considered to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system." ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting for it while the private health insurance industry raises its concerns. MLC Life Insurance is ...

Fees for no service compensation unfinished business: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... continue to rise. The chair also reiterated ASIC is working towards delivering an accountability benchmark for the life insurance industry as well as new supervisory frameworks for the entire financial services sector. So far he has found it disheartening ...

ANZ appoints two senior executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... of Mark Hand as the group executive for Australian business and private banking. George led ANZ's $2.85 billion life insurance sale to Zurich in December and the $975 million superannuation and aligned dealer group businesses sale to IOOF in September ...

Government to ban default life insurance in super

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
The Federal Government will mandate that superannuation funds no longer have opt-out life insurance arrangements for members under 25 and those with low balances. Budget papers said this was being done as a means of "protecting Australians' retirement ...