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Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... that it enables him to see how the money is spent - to help improve his children and grandchildren's quality of life. CommInsure head of annuities George Lytas, who also spoke at the briefing, said it's understandable people don't want to hand large ...

ClearView appoints head of distribution strategy

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... was a strategic accounts business development manager at MLC, a business development manager for the IFA market at CommInsure and a senior financial adviser at CBA. In her new role, she will work with ClearVIew's product, operations and marketing teams ...

CBA purchase shifts AIA Australia executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... Financial Standard that he was appointed in a "project management role" following the life insurer integrating with CommInsure, which is expected to finalise in 2018. Before AustralianSuper, Craine spent 23 years at AXA, where he held multiple roles ...

TAL strengthens group life business development team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... insurance in 1999 and joined TAL in 2015. She has also previously served as executive manager, business relationships at CommInsure. TAL general manager of group insurance Jenny Oliver said the appointment is vital to its business development plans for ...

ASIC bans ex-CBA adviser for five years

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... also churned insurance policies by asking clients to cancel existing ones and apply for personal insurance issued by CommInsure, and on several occasions cancelled clients' existing insurance prior to the replacement cover being approved. As a result ...

TAL forms medical advisory board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... held the largest market share of the $6.3 billion group insurance market, followed by TAL (26.8%), MetLife (9.9%) and CommInsure (9.8%). TAL was also among the market leaders in the lump sum category, worth $7.1 billion, behind AMP, MLC Life and ANZ's ...

Life insurance inflows stable: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... the group insurers, AIA Australia held the largest market share (27%), followed by TAL (24.7%) and MetLife (8.8%), CommInsure (12.6%) and MLC (9.4%). Meanwhile, inflows into the lump sum sub-market grew by 2.9% year-on-year with mixed company-level results. ...

Financial Standard's top stories of 2017

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... years. 8. HESTA appoints new insurer (26 May) HESTA joined the list of industry superannuation funds to move away from CommInsure as its group insurer. As part of a regular review of its insurance arrangements, the $39 billion industry fund announced ...

CommInsure life insurance ads misleading: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
The final investigation into CommInsure will see the life insurer pay $300,000 to a community group after ASIC raised concerns about misleading advertisements for two of its life insurance policies. An investigation between mid-2013 to March 2016 found ...

AMP names new chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... a partner at EY Canada, and chief risk officer at Aviva North America and Munich Re. AMP recently appointed former CommInsure executive manager of life claims, Vicky Galanis, as a senior manager of insurance governance. Prior to that, she was head of ...