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PFAN appoints chair, deputy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
... Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). She was senior marketing manager at NEOS Life and head of retail marketing at TAL Life. The board members include Paul Harding-Davis, Brad Fox, Kate Humphries and Niall McConville and Stephen Knight. "I welcome ...

New leadership at Zurich Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
... Francis Burgess will join Zurich Life & Investments in the newly created role of head of pricing, group insurance. He joins from TAL, where he was head of pricing and has also held a head of pricing position at Pacific Life Re. Also recently joining ...

Consumers lose out on IP changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... losses over the past five years, meaning certain benefits will be removed or reduced on new policies. Life insurers such as TAL and ClearView have recently launched new income protection products in response to the reforms. Meanwhile, NobleOak's benefit ...

TAL releases income protection range

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
Life insurer TAL launched three new offerings that aim to address fairness and sustainability of income protection products. Income Protection Enhance, Income Protection Focus, and Income Protection Assist are the three new products available from today. ...

Why advisers must understand Retirement Income Covenant

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
Challenger chair, retirement income Jeremy Cooper presented to the AFA conference, discussing the new Retirement Income Covenant and how it will impact advisers. While the Retirement Income Covenant does not apply any new obligations to financial advisers ...

Higher premiums a problem, not a trend: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... the current product," he said. "But the current existing product, when it becomes a closed pool, is going to deteriorate." TAL chief executive Brett Clark shared similar views and said there has been no joy for anyone with premium increases. "It erodes ...

HESTA defines perfect merger partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... path of internalising its investment team. The fund has made a raft of appointments in recent months to bring this plan to life. Jeff Brunton joined as head of portfolio management, Kim Farrant as general manager responsible investment and Stephen Howard ...

HESTA hires technology strategist

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021
... moves, Kim Farrant joined HESTA as general manager responsible investment, while the former chief investment officer at AMP Life Jeff Brunton joined as head of portfolio management.

Westpac sells life insurance unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
Westpac has agreed to offload its life insurance business to TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia for about $900 million. Westpac is due to make a $1.3 billion post-tax loss from the sale. The cash consideration of $900 million includes ongoing payments to Westpac ...

Evalesco acquires boutique firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
... specialist insurance adviser. He joined from Integrity Life where he was a business development manager and was in similar roles at TAL and Asteron Life. De Minaur was previously a financial adviser at NAB Private and Eluvia Financial Services. "Personal ...